"This is the best treatment scholarshave 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 forcefullythe ways in which this [white] system abused and controlled the black lowercaste in Georgia." -- Lester C. Lamon, American Historical Review. "Dittmer has a faculty for lucid exposition of complicated subjects. This isespecially true of the sections on segregation, racial politics, disfranchisement,woman's suffrage and prohitibion, the neo-slavery in agriculture, and the racialviolence whose threat and reality hung like a pall over all of Georgia throughoutthe period." -- Donald L. Grant, Georgia Historical Quarterly.
