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

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 eye on issues that have persisted more than 150 years later.

Author: Richard Hogan
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: 12/22/2023
Pages: 204
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 11.20h x 6.90w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781476692081

Review Citation(s):
Choice 06/01/2024

About the Author
Richard Hogan is a professor emeritus in sociology at Purdue University. He has published two previous books on Colorado frontier towns and on San Diego suburbs, along with dozens of shorter papers on everything from earnings inequality to community opposition to group homes. He lives in West Lafayette, Indiana.