Black empowerment and white mobilization: the effects of the Voting Rights Act
The 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA) paved the road to Black empowerment. How did southern whites respond? Leveraging newly digitized data on county-level voter registration rates by race between 1956 and 1980, and exploiting pre-determined variation in exposure to the federal intervention, we document...
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| Format: | Working paper |
| Language: | English |
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University of Oxford
2023
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