Black Georgia in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920

"This is the best treatment scholars

  have of black life in a southern state at the beginning of the twentieth century."

  --  Howard N. Rabinowitz,

Journal of American History

"The author shows clearly and forcefully

  the ways in which this [white] system abused and controlled the black lower

  caste in Georgia." -- Lester C. Lamon, American Historical Review.

 

  "Dittmer has a faculty for lucid exposition of complicated subjects. This is

  especially true of the sections on segregation, racial politics, disfranchisement,

  woman's suffrage and prohitibion, the neo-slavery in agriculture, and the racial

  violence whose threat and reality hung like a pall over all of Georgia throughout

  the period." -- Donald L. Grant, Georgia Historical Quarterly.