Wayne Dawkins
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- March 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781617032585
- eISBN:
- 9781617032592
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781617032585.003.0005
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
This chapter describes the suit filed by Andrew W. Cooper against New York political leaders on June 23, 1966, in U.S. District Court (Eastern) in Brooklyn. The suit aimed to prevent an election in ...
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This chapter describes the suit filed by Andrew W. Cooper against New York political leaders on June 23, 1966, in U.S. District Court (Eastern) in Brooklyn. The suit aimed to prevent an election in black Brooklyn until the congressional district lines were redrawn. Cooper alleged that New York State leaders had disenfranchised African Americans. Unlike the South, where black citizens were rebuffed through threats of violence, intimidation, or chicanery such as poll taxes and “intelligence tests,” northern power brokers diluted black New Yorker’s voting power.Less
This chapter describes the suit filed by Andrew W. Cooper against New York political leaders on June 23, 1966, in U.S. District Court (Eastern) in Brooklyn. The suit aimed to prevent an election in black Brooklyn until the congressional district lines were redrawn. Cooper alleged that New York State leaders had disenfranchised African Americans. Unlike the South, where black citizens were rebuffed through threats of violence, intimidation, or chicanery such as poll taxes and “intelligence tests,” northern power brokers diluted black New Yorker’s voting power.
