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Publius: The Journal of Federalism 1986 16(4):155-172;
© 1986 by CSF Associates Inc.
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Beyond the Voting Rights Act: White Responses to Black Political Power in Tchula, Mississippi

John Kincaid
North Texas State University

This article is a case study of the legal and political harassment of a black mayor in Tchula, Mississippi. The case illustrates in the extreme the peculiar challenges that can be confronted by local black elected officials in small southern jurisdictions, even where the population is predominantly black and the reach of the federal government otherwise assures black residents their rights to vote and hold public office. Effective enfranchisement of blacks in such communities is difficult because blacks possess few resources with which to translate votes into economic development and because historic patterns of race relations in such backwater areas stand as major cultural barriers to change.


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