A political history and analysis of disenfranchisement and restoration of the black vote in Louisiana

Western Journal of Black Studies

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 629-638

  Arp III, William ^a   Morton, Berlisha ^b  

^a SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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