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Quiet Revolution in the South: the Impact of the Voting Rights Act, 1965-1990 [Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia] (ICPSR 6646)
Released/updated on: 2006-01-12
Geographic coverage: North Carolina, Mississippi, Texas, Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama, Virginia, South Carolina
Time period: 1965-01-01--1990-01-01
The purpose of this study was to examine the causes of gains
in Black office-holding in the South over the past two decades,
including effects of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 on changes in local city
election structure, the enfranchisement of Blacks in the South, and the
prevention of the dilution of minority votes in terms of enabling
Blacks to win local office. The data are longitudinal, gathered at two
points in time at the city level. The collection includes eight
state-specific data files that contain variables such as type of
election system in use at each time period (at-large, single-member
district, or mixed), total number of Black council members at each
of two time points for each city, total number of council members, 1980
Census city total population, 1980 Census Black city population, and
voting age population. Also included is "Table Z," a set of
state-specific supplementary tables listing all lawsuits filed between
1965 and 1989 under the Fourteenth Amendment, the Fifteenth Amendment,
or the Voting Rights Act by private plaintiffs or the Justice
Department that challenged at-large elections in municipalities in all
eight of the southern states covered in this study, and in counties in Alabama,
Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia.