Factors Related to Negro Voter Turnout in Mississippi

BEFORE THE 1965 Voting Rights Act, most of the literature concerning participation by blacks in southern politics focused on registration. As a result of the enforcement of that Act, previous estimates of Negro registration soon became obsolete, as did the findings of the research conducted before 1965 on Negro participation.1 In a post-1965 study of Negro registration in Alabama, Daniel found that many of the factors previously related to registration either