{"product_id":"black-georgia-in-the-progressive-john-dittmer-9780252008139","title":"Black Georgia in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920","description":"\"This is the best treatment scholars \u003cbr\u003e have of black life in a southern state at the beginning of the twentieth century.\" \u003cbr\u003e -- \u003cb\u003eHoward N. Rabinowitz\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cbr\u003e Journal of American History \u003cbr\u003e \"The author shows clearly and forcefully \u003cbr\u003e the ways in which this [white] system abused and controlled the black lower \u003cbr\u003e caste in Georgia.\" -- \u003cb\u003eLester C. Lamon\u003c\/b\u003e, American Historical Review. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Dittmer has a faculty for lucid exposition of complicated subjects. This is \u003cbr\u003e especially true of the sections on segregation, racial politics, disfranchisement, \u003cbr\u003e woman's suffrage and prohitibion, the neo-slavery in agriculture, and the racial \u003cbr\u003e violence whose threat and reality hung like a pall over all of Georgia throughout \u003cbr\u003e the period.\" -- \u003cb\u003eDonald L. Grant\u003c\/b\u003e, Georgia Historical Quarterly. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Dittmer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0252008138\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780252008139\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Illinois Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/1980\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.14h x 5.90w x 0.72d","brand":"John Dittmer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44075982192895,"sku":"9780252008139","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d0a41251-b9ba-4be8-b7ab-f73810421e1e.jpg?v=1685462524","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/black-georgia-in-the-progressive-john-dittmer-9780252008139","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}