{"product_id":"a-voting-rights-odyssey-black-enfranchisement-in-georgia-hardback-9780521812320","title":"A Voting Rights Odyssey; Black Enfranchisement in Georgia (Hardback) 9780521812320","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA Voting Rights Odyssey\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eBlack Enfranchisement in Georgia\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDetails the efforts of the white leadership in Georgia to deny blacks their voting rights.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLaughlin McDonald (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521812320, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 14 January 2003\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e264 pages, 17 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.56 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e...\"McDonald's stories evoke drama, as when he relates how Georgia's white supremacist legislature expelled Julian Bond, a black, from the Statehouse in 1965 after Bond was elected to the House.  McDonald's expertise as a lawyer is evident throughout the book.  His story's larger point is that legislatures can't always be counted on to do the right thing. Blacks won freedom, for the most part, in the courts. In telling his adopted state's story, McDonald finds hope.\"...Is Knight-Ridder Newspapers, 11\/23\/2003\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eFrom slavery to the white backlash of the 1990s, A Voting Rights Odyssey is a riveting account of the crusade for equal voting rights in Georgia. Written by a veteran civil rights lawyer the book draws upon expert reports and other court records, as well as trial testimony and interviews with the men and women who served as plaintiffs and witnesses in litigation that helped forge a revolution in voting rights. The book explores, and repudiates, the myths of the Reconstruction era that blacks were incapable of voting and holding office. It also catalogues the attempts of the state leadership to maintain white supremacy after the abolition of the white primary, the demands of the Civil Rights Movement, and passage of the historic Voting Rights Act of 1965. A must read for anyone interested in the way in which race has driven and distorted the political process in the South.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. The voting rights act of 1965: a great divide\u003cbr\u003e 2. After the civil war: recreating 'the white man's Georgia'\u003cbr\u003e 3. The dawning of a new day: abolition of the white primary\u003cbr\u003e 4. Passage of the civil rights act of 1957: the white response\u003cbr\u003e 5. One person, one vote: the end of the county unit system and the malapportioned legislature and congressional delegation\u003cbr\u003e 6. The election code of 1964: twilight of the county unit legislature\u003cbr\u003e 7. The voting rights scene outside the golden dome\u003cbr\u003e 8. The voting rights act: how it works\u003cbr\u003e 9. Increased black registration: the white response\u003cbr\u003e 10. 1970 extension of the voting rights act: more white resistance\u003cbr\u003e 11. The 1975 extension of the voting rights act: the private enforcement campaign\u003cbr\u003e 12. Redistricting in the 1980s\u003cbr\u003e 13. 1982: voting rights in the balance\u003cbr\u003e 14. Continued enforcement of the voting rights act\u003cbr\u003e 15. The demise of Georgia's nineteenth-century voter registration system: taking stock of the impact of the voting rights act\u003cbr\u003e 16. Recreating the past: the challenge to the majority vote requirement\u003cbr\u003e 17. The white backlash: redistricting in the 1990s\u003cbr\u003e 18. Keysville, Georgia - a voting rights crusade.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Law [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Law\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Law%20%5BL%5D%22\"\u003eL\u003c\/a\u003e], Politics \u0026amp; government [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Politics \u0026amp; government\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Politics%20\u0026amp;%20government%20%5BJP%5D%22\"\u003eJP\u003c\/a\u003e], Regional studies [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Regional studies\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Regional%20studies%20%5BGTB%5D%22\"\u003eGTB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46265136972056,"sku":"9780521812320","price":67.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521812320i.jpg?v=1692019809","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/a-voting-rights-odyssey-black-enfranchisement-in-georgia-hardback-9780521812320","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}