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Genre/Form: | History |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Laughlin McDonald |
ISBN: | 0521812321 9780521812320 0521011795 9780521011792 |
OCLC Number: | 49495164 |
Description: | viii, 254 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Contents: | 1. The Voting Rights Act of 1965: A Great Divide -- 2. After the Civil War: Recreating "the White Man's Georgia" -- 3. The Dawning of a New Day: Abolition of the White Primary -- 4. Passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1957: The White Response -- 5. One Person, One Vote: The End of the County Unit System and the Malapportioned Legislature and Congressional Delegation -- 6. The Election Code of 1964: Twilight of the Malapportioned Legislature -- 7. The Voting Rights Scene Outside the Golden Dome -- 8. The Voting Rights Act: How It Works -- 9. Increased Black Registration: The White Response -- 10. The 1970 Extension of the Voting Rights Act: More White Resistance. |
Responsibility: | Laughlin McDonald. |
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"Pulls no punches. . . A valuable addition to civil rights history." The Atlanta Journal-Constitution "...accessible and engaging to all readers...This third person history reflects the choice of an unassuming, thoughtful lawyer who possesses a courtly deference to others as the real heroes of good deeds." Southern Changes "Laughlin writes with a historians breadth of knowledge and mastery of research, an advocate's passion and the acute perceptions of a veteran participant in civil rights litigation." Columbia College Today "Pulls no punches. . . A valuable addition to civil rights history." The Atlanta Journal-Constitution "...helps explain why Georgia's redistributing battles have become so befuddling." The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ..."McDonald's stories evoke drama, as when he relates how Georgia's white supremacist legislature expelled Julian Bond, a black, from the Statehouse in 1965 after Bond was elected to the House. McDonald's expertise as a lawyer is evident throughout the book. His story's larger point is that legislatures can't always be counted on to do the right thing. Blacks won freedom, for the most part, in the courts. In telling his adopted state's story, McDonald finds hope."...Is Knight-Ridder Newspapers, 11/23/2003 Read more...

