Southern Racial Politics and North Carolina's Black Vote

	Contents
	Acknowledgements	i
	Preface (Ralph Campbell Jr.)	ii
	Introduction	v
Part I	The Beginning	1
Chapter I	The Beginning	1
	Race	2
	The 1st Southern Strategy	5

Chapter II	“The War”	7
	Leading up to the war — the reason	8
	The Civil War — the role of Blacks	11

Chapter III	War’s Aftermath	15
Section 1	Reconstruction Time line	16
	Reconstruction	21
	The End of Reconstruction and	22
	The second Southern Strategy
Section 3	Jim Crow, Black Codes	25
Section 4	Coup d’etat in Wilmington, NC	33
Section 5	The Dixiecrat Party, States Rights	37
	And the third Southern Strategy

Part II	The 20th Century	41
Chapter I	The Later Half of the 20th Century	41
	“Tit for Tat”	42
	The most important legislation of the 20th Century	50
	— The 1965 Voting Rights Act
	Redistricting & Section 5	63
	Voter Disenfranchisement	66
	The “Real” Beginning of the Ascendancy of the	80
	Republican Party in the South (and the 9 Southern Strategies)

Chapter II	Challenges to Black Suffrage	92
	Suppression, Dirty Tricks and Racial elections	92
	The Electoral College and why it’s bad for Blacks	103

Chapter III	The GOP and Blacks	119
	The GOP Woos the Black vote through	130
	Black Business owners and the Black Church	134

Part III	The 21st Century	138
Chapter I	“North Carolina’s Black Vote	138
	“Gatekeepers”	138

Chapter II	VR and GOTV (Purging and Felons)	142
Chapter III	Loses that didn’t have to be: Frye’s lost to Lake	144
	Wynn’s lost to the GOP, and the lost of Ralph
Chapter IV	The Easley – Wicker race of 2000	155

Part IV	Reengineering the Black Vote	163
Chapter I	Reengineering	163
	A Hard Introspective look at the Black Vote	163
Chapter II	Rethinking and Redesigning	170
	Changes in laws Black Voter Education	170 172
	Blacks and the Democratic Party	176
	Recruiting Black Candidates	180
	Communicating	181
	Taking Back Voter Registration and GOTV Develop Culture of Civic Participation — Beyond the Church	182
	Why Things Worked in the ‘50’s and ‘60’s	183
	Why Things Stopped working in the ‘80’s	184
	What’s the end Game and how do we get there?	185

	Postscript: 2006 General Election Results	186