Georgia in Black and White: Explorations in the Race Relations of a Southern State, 1865-1950

Eleven essays explore the many ways in which whites and blacks in Georgia interacted from the end of the Civil War to the dawn of the civil rights movement, revealing the extent to which racial matters infused politics, religion, education, gender relationships, kinship structure, and community dynamics. Among the educated African American women in post-emancipation Atlanta, interracial kinship ties and the emergence of a rural black middle class, Southern strongholds of Garveyism and race, religion and agricultural reform. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.