Franklin Chandler Davidson (May 13, 1936 – April 10, 2021) was a professor of public policy and expert on voting rights at

Rice University William Marsh Rice University (Rice University) is a Private university, private research university in Houston, Houston, Texas. It is on a 300-acre campus near the Houston Museum District and adjacent to the Texas Medical Center. Rice is ranke ...

. Chandler served in the U.S. Navy from 1959-1961, received a degree in philosophy (1961) from the University of Texas, and went on to receive a M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology from Princeton University. He later co-founded the sociology department at Rice University. For his research, he conducted numerous recorded interviews of Texas politicians, and was asked to testify as an expert before the U.S. Congress on voting issues. His work with political scientist

Bernard Grofman Bernard Norman Grofman (born December 2, 1944) is a political scientist at the University of California, Irvine. He is an expert on redistricting and has been a special master on several district map redrawings. From the University of Chicago he ...

and 30 other researchers studied the impact of the

Voting Rights Act of 1965 The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. It was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson during the height of the civil rights movement ...

in the Southern United States, and led to the publication of the book, ''Quiet Revolution in the South'', (1994). Rice holds his collection of papers and research materials.

Work

*''Biracial Politics : Conflict and Coalition in the Metropolitan South'' (1972) *''Minority Vote Dilution'' (1984), editor *''Quiet Revolution in the South'' co-written with Bernard Grofman *''Controversies in Minority Voting: The Voting Rights Act in Perspective'' with Bernard Grofman *''Race and Class in Texas Politics''

References

External links

Chandler Davidson Texas Politics research collection
{{DEFAULTSORT:Davidson, Chandler 1936 births 2021 deaths American civil rights activists Rice University faculty People from Texas American democracy activists University of Texas alumni Princeton University alumni