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Chandler Davidson Voting Rights papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 528
Finding aid note: Stored off-site at the Library Service Center. Please request this material via woodson@rice.edu or call 713-348-2586.

Scope and Contents

The Chandler Davidson Voting Rights papers collection includes research material, demographic data, reports, trial materials, correspondence, letters, information about court cases, and several essays and books relating to voting rights in Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and California from 1961 to 2006.

Dates

  • 1961-2006

Creator

Access Restriction

This material is open for research.

Use Restrictions

Permission to publish material from the Chandler Davidson Voting Rights collection must be obtained from the Woodson Research Center.

Biographical Sketch

Chandler Davidson, Research Professor and Tsanoff Chair of Public Affairs Emeritus, taught at Rice from 1966 to 2003 and still occasionally teaches despite his emeritus status. He was a founding member of the Department of Sociology and served as departmental chair for fourteen years between 1979 and 2003. In the latter part of his career, he had a joint appointment with the Department of Political Science. Davidson has won five university-wide teaching prizes, including Rice's top award, the George R. Brown Excellence in Teaching Prize. In addition to many articles appearing in academic journals and popular magazines, he has written or edited a number of books. In the early 1990s he and Professor Bernard Grofman of the University of California at Irvine directed a major scholarly effort to assess the impact of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in the South. Funded by the National Science Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation, the project involved almost thirty political scientists, historians, sociologists, and voting rights lawyers. The resulting book, "Quiet Revolution in the South" (Princeton University Press, 1994), was co-edited by Davidson and Grofman and won the Richard Fenno Prize awarded by the American Political Science Association for the best book published on legislative behavior that year. Davdson's work on voting rights has been cited several times in U.S. Supreme Court opinions. He is writing a book on hierarchies of respect in America. He is also continuing research on minority voting rights.

Extent

20.5 Linear Feet ( (29 boxes))

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract:

The Chandler Davidson Voting Rights papers collection includes research material, demographic data, reports, trial materials, correspondence, letters, information about court cases, and several essays and books relating to voting rights in the United States.

Arrangement

Missing Title

  1. Series I: Court cases, city/state demographic data, preparation material for trial
  2. Series II: Reports, data sheets, tables, correspondence, notes, photographs, audio tapes
  3. Series III: Printed matter, publications, newsletters - includes correspondence regarding Davidson's books and Davidson's 1968 dissertation
  4. Series IV: Correspondence, letters, cases, addenda
  5. Series V: Addendum: Printed materials, publications, correspondence

Acquisition Information

Original collection and addenda received from Chandler Davidson

General Physical Description note

29 boxes

Subjects

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Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title
Guide to the Chandler Davidson Voting Rights papers, 1961-2006
Status
Completed
Date
2008
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
English

Repository Details

Repository Details

Part of the Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas Repository

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Contact:
Fondren Library MS-44, Rice University
6100 Main St.
Houston Texas 77005 USA

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