Voting Rights Odyssey Black Enfranchisement in Georgia

Name: Voting Rights Odyssey Black Enfranchisement in Georgia
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ISBN: 9780521812320

ISBN-10: 0521812321

ISBN-13: 9780521812320

Edition: 2003

Authors: Laughlin McDonald

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This is an account of the struggle for equal voting rights in Georgia, from the aboliton of slavery to the present day. The book explores the myths of the Reconstruction era about white supremacy and catalogues attempts to maintain white dominance in the Georgia electoral system.

Book details

List price: $81.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/14/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 264
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English




The voting rights act of 1965: a great divide;



After the civil war; recreating 'the white man's Georgia'



The dawning of a new day: abolition of the white primary



Passage of the civil rights act of 1957: the white response



One person, one vote: the end of the county unit system and the malapportioned legislature and congressional delegation



The election code of 1964: twilight of the county unit legislature



The voting rights scene outside the golden dome



The voting rights act; how it works



Increased black registration: the white response



1970 extension of the voting rights act: more white resistance



The 1975 extension of the voting rights act: the private enforcement campaign



Redistricting in the 1980s



1982: voting rights in the balance



Continued enforcement of the voting rights act



The demise of Georgia's nineteenth-century voter registration system: taking stock of the impact of the voting rights act



Recreating the past: the challenge to the majority vote requirement



The white backlash: redistricting in the 1990s



Keysville, Georgia - a voting rights crusade