Abstract
This chapter focuses on 1950s and 1960s, which witnessed significant advancements in voting rights as well as important tactical shifts in vote suppression. While the traditional tactic of playing games with voter registration and registration lists persisted, new strategies were developed from well-established devices and soon became the preferred weapons for suppressing the vote of political opponents. In the narrow window prior to the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 but after the 1964 Civil Rights Act, political dynamics had already started to shift. Given the strong Democratic tendencies of voters of color as a result of the New Deal and the civil rights movement, and given the backlash against civil rights, operatives in the Republican Party devised a strategy to suppress minority turnout by challenging voters' eligibility to vote at the polls.
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