The New Jim Crow: African Americans, Civil Rights, and the First Presidential Election of the 21st Century

About the Book

How the Bush campaign in “Florida 2000” engineered a political and Civil Rights disaster for African Americans, and why. And the parallels of this debacle in American history and constitutional law. --- “Perhaps the most dramatic undercount...was the non-existent ballots of the countless unknown eligible voters who were wrongfully purged from the voter registration rolls...The disenfranchisement of Florida’s voters fell most harshly on the shoulders of African Americans”. The United States Commission on Civil Rights “The United States Supreme Court was aware of this illegal, massive disenfranchisement of Florida’s black citizens... executed by the state’s highest ranking electoral officials... “In Gadsen County...the black population is only 11%, but the number of rejected black ballots were 54%”. The New Jim Crow “Since Dred Scott v. Sanford...there has been no case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in recent years that has had a more devastating impact on the fundamental political interests and Civil Rights of African Americans than Bush v. Gore.” From the Introduction of The New Jim Crow

About the Author

GODFREY C. HENRY, ESQ., received his B.A. degree with major in Political Science from St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia, Canada; his M.A. degree with major in Political Science from Columbia University in New York City; and his J.D. degree from Rutgers University, School of Law, in Newark, New Jersey. He is a former Director of the Equal Employment Opportu-nity Program of the National Urban League’s Essex County Chap-ter in New Jersey. Mr. Henry was an Assistant Professor of Constitutional Law at Wayne State University, School of Law, Detroit, Michi-gan. He is a former Deputy Attorney General of the State of New Jersey. Mr. Henry has been engaged in the private practice of law in New Jersey since 1973. He is a member of The Association of Trial Lawyers of America.