A Voting Rights Odyssey: Black Enfranchisement in Georgia

by Laughlin McDonald

Book Overview

A 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. Narrated chronologically, most of the story is told by those who participated; 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521011795
• ISBN13: 9780521011792
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 8.8"