A Voting Rights Odyssey

1. The voting rights act of 1965: a great divide; 2. After the civil war: recreating 'the white man's Georgia'; 3. The dawning of a new day: abolition of the white primary; 4. Passage of the civil rights act of 1957: the white response; 5. One person, one vote: the end of the county unit system and the malapportioned legislature and congressional delegation; 6. The election code of 1964: twilight of the county unit legislature; 7. The voting rights scene outside the golden dome; 8. The voting rights act: how it works; 9. Increased black registration: the white response; 10. 1970 extension of the voting rights act: more white resistance; 11. The 1975 extension of the voting rights act: the private enforcement campaign; 12. Redistricting in the 1980s; 13. 1982: voting rights in the balance; 14. Continued enforcement of the voting rights act; 15. The demise of Georgia's nineteenth-century voter registration system: taking stock of the impact of the voting rights act; 16. Recreating the past: the challenge to the majority vote requirement; 17. The white backlash: redistricting in the 1990s; 18. Keysville, Georgia - a voting rights crusade.