Building African American voting rights in the nineteenth century / Xi Wang -- Disenfranchisement and its impact on the political system / Robert C. Lieberman -- Supreme Court and Black disenfranchisement / Michael J. Klarman -- Rebuilding Black voting rights before the Voting rights act / Paula D. McClain ... [et al.] -- Making the Voting rights act / Stephen Tuck -- Extensions of the Voting rights act / Colin D. Moore -- Impact of the "core" Voting rights act on voting and officeholding / David A. Bositis -- Voting rights act and its implications for three nonblack minorities / Pei-te Lien -- Voting rights act and its discontents / Mark Rush -- Federal oversight of elections and partisan realignment / Laughlin McDonald.