Black Georgia in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920 - 9780252008139

Black Georgia in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920Author(s): John Dittmer\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Illinois Press, United States\nImprint: University of Illinois Press\nISBN-13: 9780252008139, 978-0252008139\nSynopsis\n\""This is the best treatment scholars\nhave of black life in a southern state at the beginning of the twentieth century.\""\n-- Howard N. Rabinowitz,\n Journal of American History\n \""The author shows clearly and forcefully\nthe ways in which this [white] system abused and controlled the black lower\ncaste in Georgia.\"" -- Lester C. Lamon, American Historical Review.\n \""Dittmer has a faculty for lucid exposition of complicated subjects. This is\nespecially true of the sections on segregation, racial politics, disfranchisement,\nwoman's suffrage and prohitibion, the neo-slavery in agriculture, and the racial\nviolence whose threat and reality hung like a pall over all of Georgia throughout\nthe period.\"" -- Donald L. Grant, Georgia Historical Quarterly.