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The final book in the Documentary History of Georgia series examines sharecropping, the vision of M.L. King, Jr., and Jimmy Carter's first political campaign. The last hundred years have brought dramatic and sometimes disturbing changes to Georgia. Big cities and their sprawling suburbs, industry and urban blight, as well as greater incomes, better educations and social reform, came inevitably, despite persistent poverty and race-hating demagogues. Some thirty documents, or groups of documents, give firsthand reports of sharecropping, race riots, lynchings, the chain gang, segregation and desegregation, Gene Talmadges dictatorship, the vision of M. L. King, Jr., Jimmy Carters first campaign. However, as Georgia hurtles into the future, the states identity and traditions are being sacrificed to a homogenized mass-market culture on an altar of uncertain progress. William F. Holmes is professor of history at the University of Georgia.

Author

William F. Holmes

Publisher

Beehive Press, The

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9780883220191