Chandler Davidson Voting Rights papers
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
- Creation: 1961-2006
Creator
- Davidson, Chandler (Person)
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
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
- Series I: Court cases, city/state demographic data, preparation material for trial
- Series II: Reports, data sheets, tables, correspondence, notes, photographs, audio tapes
- Series III: Printed matter, publications, newsletters - includes correspondence regarding Davidson's books and Davidson's 1968 dissertation
- Series IV: Correspondence, letters, cases, addenda
- Series V: Addendum: Printed materials, publications, correspondence
Acquisition Information
Original collection and addenda received from Chandler Davidson
General Physical Description note
29 boxes
Subject
- O'Rourke, Timothy Gerald (Person)
- Murray, Richard (Person)
- Rabinovitz, Francine (Person)
- Palmer, Bruce (Person)
- McManus, Susan (Person)
- Mattox, Jim (Person)
- Morris and Turnage. Law Firm. (Organization)
- McNeil, Frank (Person)
- Hewitt, Gerald J. (Person)
- Grofman, Bernard (Person)
- Jones, Ray (Person)
- Howard, Oliver (Person)
- Citizens for Better Government (Abilene, Tex.). (Organization)
- Greater Houston Civic Council (Houston, Tex.). (Organization)
- Davies, Race D. (Person)
- Antunes, George Edward (Person)
- Brischetto, Robert R. (Person)
- Bullock, Charles S., III (Person)
- Byrd, W. Lee (Person)
- Smith, Griffin, Jr. (Person)
- Vera, Alberto (Person)
- Richards, Ann, 1933-2006 (Person)
- Rossinow, Douglas C. (Person)
- 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
Part of the Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas Repository
Fondren Library MS-44, Rice University
6100 Main St.
Houston Texas 77005 USA
713-348-2586
woodson@rice.edu