Excerpt from Voting Rights Let's embrace ideals that are more realistic. The recent history of the South shows that what can be attained is the empowerment of african-americans and other minorities. Minority office holding vests people who were disfranchised for generations with the sense that American democracy has a place for them. It elicits from Afri can-americans a consent to being governed that otherwise has not been achieved. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.