1. The major historical work on Reconstruction is Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877 ( New York: Harper and Row Publishers, 1988 ).
2. Jack Bloom, Class, Race, and the Civil Rights Movement (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987).
3. Also see, Neil R. McMillen, Dark Journey: Black Mississippians in the Age of Jim Crow ( Champaign-Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 ).
4. The legal and political mechanisms of black disfranchisement are discussed in a classic work by V. O. Key first published in 1949, Southern Politics in State and Nation ( New York: Random House, 2000 ).
5. Dewey Grantham, The Life and Death of the Solid South: A Political History ( Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1992 ).