num_pages: 256
description:  "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. 
language: English
title: Black Georgia in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920
titlecomplete: Black Georgia in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920 (Blacks in the New World)
ratings_count: 5
publisher: University of Illinois Press