Voting Rights Odyssey: Black Enfranchisement in Georgia Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
1	The Voting Rights Act of 1965: A Great Divide	8
2	After the Civil War: Recreating "the White Man's Georgia"	15
3	The Dawning of a New Day: Abolition of the White Primary	45
4	Passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1957: The White Response	60
5	One Person, One Vote: The End of the County Unit System and the Malapportioned Legislature and Congressional Delegation	80
6	The Election Code of 1964: Twilight of the Malapportioned Legislature	91
7	The Voting Rights Scene Outside the Golden Dome	103
8	The Voting Rights Act: How It Works	124
9	Increased Black Registration: The White Response	129
10	The 1970 Extension of the Voting Rights Act: More White Resistance	139
11	The 1975 Extension of the Voting Rights Act: The Private Enforcement Campaign	153
12	Redistricting in the 1980s	167
13	1982: Voting Rights in the Balance	174
14	Continued Enforcement of the Voting Rights Act	182
15	The Demise of Georgia's Nineteenth-Century Voter Registration System: Taking Stock of the Impact of the Voting Rights Act	191
16	Recreating the Past: The Challenge of the Majority-Vote Requirement	198
17	The White Backlash: Redistricting in the 1990s	211
18	Keysville, Georgia - A Voting Rights Crucible	238
	Index	246