The Disfranchisement Myth: Poor Whites and Suffrage Restriction in Alabama

Author/Contributor(s):	Feldman, Glenn
Publisher:	University of Georgia Press
Date:	04/15/2010
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Drawing on court documents, voting statistics, civil rights and labor records, and many other sources, Feldman shows that the racist appeals of Alabama's white planters, industrialists, and other conservatives motivated poor whites in far greater numbers and for more complex reasons than received knowledge concedes.