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

by Richard Hogan

After the Civil War, as Black freedmen prepared to exercise their new voting rights in Georgia, white supremacist groups rose to restrict their ability. 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1476692084
• ISBN13: 9781476692081
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc.
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.9" x 11.2"