A Voting Rights Odyssey: Black Enfranchisement in GeorgiaA Voting Rights Odyssey is the story of the efforts of the white leadership in Georgia to maintain white supremacy by denying blacks the right to vote and hold elected office. The events are set out chronologically. The prose is clear and direct, and avoids the "legalese" that infects much legal writing. The story is told in large part by the participants themselves, from Alexander H. Stephens, vice president of the Confederacy, to Carl Sanders, governor of Georgia, to Emma Gresham, mayor of Keysville in rural Burke County. Among the strengths of the book are its steady focus and in depth concentration on one state. |
Contents
Acknowledgments page | 1 |
Recreating the White Mans Georgia | 15 |
The Challenge to the MajorityVote | 16 |
Abolition of the White Primary | 45 |
The White Response | 60 |
The End of the County Unit System | 80 |
The Voting Rights Scene Outside the Golden Dome | 103 |
How It Works | 124 |
More White | 139 |
The Private | 153 |
Redistricting in the 1980s | 167 |
Continued Enforcement of the Voting Rights Act | 182 |
Redistricting in the 1990s | 211 |
Keysville Georgia A Voting Rights Crucible | 238 |
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A Voting Rights Odyssey: Black Enfranchisement in Georgia Laughlin McDonald No preview available - 2003 |
A Voting Rights Odyssey: Black Enfranchisement in Georgia Laughlin McDonald No preview available - 2003 |
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References to this book
Debating the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1968 Steven F. Lawson,Charles M. Payne No preview available - 2006 |
Bibliographic information
| Title | A Voting Rights Odyssey: Black Enfranchisement in Georgia A Voting Rights Odyssey: Black Enfranchisement in Georgia, Laughlin McDonald |
| Author | Laughlin McDonald |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 2003 |
| ISBN | 0521011795, 9780521011792 |
| Length | 254 pages |
| Subjects | › › Law / General Political Science / American Government / General Political Science / General Political Science / Political Process / Campaigns & Elections Social Science / Regional Studies |
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