Civil Rights in America: Racial Voting Rights: A National Historic Landmarks Theme Study

Salvatore SC, Foley N, Iverson P, Lawson SF. 2009. Civil Rights in America: Racial Voting Rights: A National Historic Landmarks Theme Study. National Historic Landmark Theme Studies. National Park Service. Washington, DC

This study includes historic context essays on the systemic denial of voting rights to African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, and American Indians, and these groups' campaigns to fight disenfranchisement and exercise their right to vote. Registration guidelines for evaluating potential NHLs and an inventory of properties identified as nationally significant in these contexts are included. This document was prepared by the NPS in cooperation with the National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers and the Organization of American Historians. Originally published in 2007, this theme study was revised in 2009.

Type

Published Report

Authors

Salvatore, Susan; Foley, Neil; Iverson, Peter; Lawson, Steven

Date of Issue

2009

Publisher

National Park Service

Keywords

African American, American Indian, Asian American, Black, civil rights, Latino, National Historic Landmark, Native American, politics, voting

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Series

• National Historic Landmark Theme Studies

See also

• Civil Rights in America: A Framework for Identifying Significant Sites
• Edmund Pettus Bridge National Historic Landmark Nomination
• Medgar and Myrlie Evers House National Historic Landmark Nomination
• U.S. Post Office and Courthouse (Frank M. Johnson Jr. Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse) National Historic Landmark Nomination
• U.S. Court of Appeals – Fifth Circuit (John Minor Wisdom U.S. Court of Appeals Building) National Historic Landmark Nomination
• U.S. Post Office and Courthouse (Elbert Parr Tuttle U.S. Court of Appeals Building) National Historic Landmark Nomination

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