Voting Rights Odyssey: Black Enfranchisement in Georgia

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Author: Laughlin McDonald

ISBN-10: 0521812321

ISBN-13: 9780521812320

Category: Civil Rights - African American History

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Details the efforts of the white leadership in Georgia to deny blacks their voting rights.

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction11The Voting Rights Act of 1965: A Great Divide82After the Civil War: Recreating "the White Man's Georgia"153The Dawning of a New Day: Abolition of the White Primary454Passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1957: The White Response605One Person, One Vote: The End of the County Unit System and the Malapportioned Legislature and Congressional Delegation806The Election Code of 1964: Twilight of the Malapportioned Legislature917The Voting Rights Scene Outside the Golden Dome1038The Voting Rights Act: How It Works1249Increased Black Registration: The White Response12910The 1970 Extension of the Voting Rights Act: More White Resistance13911The 1975 Extension of the Voting Rights Act: The Private Enforcement Campaign15312Redistricting in the 1980s167131982: Voting Rights in the Balance17414Continued Enforcement of the Voting Rights Act18215The Demise of Georgia's Nineteenth-Century Voter Registration System: Taking Stock of the Impact of the Voting Rights Act19116Recreating the Past: The Challenge of the Majority-Vote Requirement19817The White Backlash: Redistricting in the 1990s21118Keysville, Georgia - A Voting Rights Crucible238Index246