VOTING RIGHTS AND BLACK SELF-DETERMINATION;
THE EFFICACY OF RACIAL REPRESENTATION

Symposium

The Voting Rights Act, 1965-2007: Documentation of the Past,
Implications For the Future

Moorland Spingarn Research Center
Howard University
October 20, 1999

Dr. Ronald Walters
Distinguished Leadership Scholar
James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership
Professor of Government and Politics
University of Maryland College Park

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November 1999