Resisting Redemption at the Georgia Polls
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...
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...
