The Disfranchisement Myth: Poor Whites and Suffrage Restriction in Alabama (Choice Outstanding Academic Books)

by Glenn Feldman (Author)

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  Paperback
  2010

  $37.02

  A study that challenges the scholarship on the roots of disfranchisement in America, arguing that historians have misunderstood the role of race and class in this antidemocratic movement. It shows that the racist appeals of Alabama's white planters, industrialists, and other conservatives motivated poor whites in greater numbers.