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Resisting Redemption at the Georgia Polls: White Supremacy versus Democracy in the Elections of 1868-1880

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Resisting Redemption at the Georgia Polls: White Supremacy versus Democracy in the Elections of 1868-1880 - Hogan, Richard
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After the Civil War, as Black freedmen prepared to exercise their new voting rights in Georgia, white supremacist groups rose to restrict their ability to participate at the polls. Georgians faced a new prospect for brokering a class-based electoral coalition of white yeomen and Black freedmen. The failure of Reconstruction echoes today as Georgia remains a voting rights battleground. This book details this struggle for racial justice and democracy in postwar Georgia, with an eye on issues that have persisted more than 150 ...

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Resisting Redemption at the Georgia Polls: White Supremacy versus Democracy in the Elections of 1868-1880 2023, McFarland & Co Inc, Jefferson, NC

ISBN-13: 9781476692081

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