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Homefront: Black Veterans and Black Voters in the Civil Rights Era

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  • Thomas Koch
  • Trevon D. Logan
  • John M. Parman

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While the role of World War II veterans in the civil rights movement has been well documented, debate about the causal effect of military service remains. Combining detailed information on World War II enlistments and Civil Rights Commission data on voter registration, we present the first causal estimates of the role of Black veterans in high-risk political participation in the US South. Each Black enlistee increased Black voter registration by more than two additional Black registrants after the Voting Rights Act of 1965. We find similar effects on the presence of Black rights groups and, in response, White nationalist organizations.

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  • Thomas Koch & Trevon D. Logan & John M. Parman, 2021. "Homefront: Black Veterans and Black Voters in the Civil Rights Era," AEA Papers and Proceedings, American Economic Association, vol. 111, pages 32-36, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:aea:apandp:v:111:y:2021:p:32-36
    DOI: 10.1257/pandp.20211070
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    • D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
    • J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
    • J45 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Public Sector Labor Markets
    • K38 - Law and Economics - - Other Substantive Areas of Law - - - Human Rights Law; Gender Law; Animal Rights Law
    • N42 - Economic History - - Government, War, Law, International Relations, and Regulation - - - U.S.; Canada: 1913-
    • K16 - Law and Economics - - Basic Areas of Law - - - Election Law

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