| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.4

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Book Review

Struggle for Mastery: Disfranchisement in the South, 1888–1908. By Michael Perman. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. xvi, 397 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2593-X. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-8078-4909-X.)

Taking the vote from the black man was accomplished throughout the South in the last decade of the nineteenth and the first decade of the twentieth centuries. The events are familiar. Beginning with Mississippi in 1890, disfranchisement went forward in the name of white supremacy. The result of what Michael Perman refers to as "ruthless acts of political surgery" was the consignment of blacks to a status of political irrelevancy. . . .

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