Author: Georgia. State Commission to Revise the ConstitutionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional amendments
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Records of the Commission of 1943-1944 to Revise the Constitution of Georgia
Author: Georgia. State Commission to Revise the ConstitutionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional amendments
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Revised Constitution of the State of Georgia
Author: Georgia. State Commission to Revise the ConstitutionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional law
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Records of the Commission of 1943-1944 to Revise the Constitution of Georgia
Author: Georgia. State Commission to Revise the ConstitutionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional amendments
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
The Politics of Change in Georgia
Author: Harold P. HendersonPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820313061
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
This biography of Ellis Arnall follows the life and political career of the former governor from his rural Georgia upbringing through his service as state representative, attorney general, and governor to his subsequent political exile. Arnall assumed the governorship of Georgia in 1943, becoming the youngest person in the United States ever elected to that position. In his single term (1943-1947) he initiated a series of remarkable reforms that elevated Georgia above its Tobacco Road image and stood it alongside North Carolina, then the South's most progressive state. Unlike most of his colleagues, Arnall refused to "play it safe" in the state's political arena. Though still a segregationist and a traditionalist in many ways, Arnall had no patience for provincialism and cared deeply about Georgia and how it was viewed by the rest of the nation. Boldly confronting the demagoguery of his predecessor Eugene Talmadge, Arnall, who called himself "a democrat with a small 'd'," united the state's liberal and conservative factions to deliver the promise of the New South to all of Georgia's citizens: biracial voting, government reform, economic development, and an improved standard of living. So sweeping and farsighted were Arnall's accomplishments that, to a great extent, the structure of Georgia's present-day government evolved under his guidance and has changed little since. In 1985, a Georgia Association of Historians survey ranked Arnall's leadership, responsiveness to issues, and national reputation the highest among governors who served from 1943-1983. Successful as it was, his career, begun a decade earlier in the state house of representatives, was cut short. Many Georgians felt that Arnall was too liberal and, worse, that he had catered to the national media, enhancing his own image by discussing the state's problems with outsiders. By Arnall's own estimation, his political career ended when he decided to abide by a 1945 federal court decision that invalidated Georgia's white-voters-only primary elections. Arnall left politics in 1947, returning briefly in 1966 for a spirited, but unsuccessful, primary bid for governor. Written with Ellis Arnall's full cooperation and filled with fascinating details of the final days of Old South politics, this book recounts the political career of one of the region's most accomplished and energetic leaders. The Politics of Change in Georgia is based on the former governor's speeches and public writings, critical and supportive newspapers accounts, and interviews both with Arnall and with other prominent Georgians such as Herman E. Talmadge, S. Ernest Vandiver, Jr., Lester G. Maddox, Carl E. Sanders, Jr., James H. Gray, Sr., Howard H. Callaway, and Ivan Allen, Jr.
Journal of the Assembly, Legislature of the State of California
Author: California. Legislature. AssemblyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 1336
Book Description
The Georgia State Constitution
Author: Melvin B. HillPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199941394
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
The history of the Georgia Constitution -- The Georgia Constitution and commentary
Georgia Governors in an Age of Change
Author: Harold P. HendersonPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820310050
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Beginning with the inauguration of Ellis Arnall as governor in 1943, Georgia Governors in an Age of Change traces the gubernatorial leadership of Georgia through four decades, chronicling the state's rise from bastion of southern provincialism to a dynamic and progressive state.
Reforming Jim Crow
Author: Kimberley JohnsonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199741731
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Historians of the Civil Rights era typically treat the key events of the 1950s Brown v. Board of Education, sit-ins, bus boycotts, and marches--as a revolutionary social upheaval that upended a rigid caste system. While the 1950s was a watershed era in Southern and civil rights history, the tendency has been to paint the preceding Jim Crow era as a brutal system that featured none of the progressive reform impulses so apparent at the federal level and in the North. As Kimberley Johnson shows in this pathbreaking reappraisal of the Jim Crow era, this argument is too simplistic, and is true to neither the 1950s nor the long era of Jim Crow that finally solidified in 1910. Focusing on the political development of the South between 1910 and 1954, Johnson considers the genuine efforts by white and black progressives to reform the system without destroying it. These reformers assumed that the system was there to stay, and therefore felt that they had to work within it in order to modernize the South. Consequently, white progressives tried to install a better--meaning more equitable--separate-but-equal system, and elite black reformers focused on ameliorative (rather than confrontational) solutions that would improve the lives of African Americans. Johnson concentrates on local and state reform efforts throughout the South in areas like schooling, housing, and labor. Many of the reforms made a difference, but they had the ironic impact of generating more demand for social change among blacks. She is able to show how demands slowly rose over time, and how the system laid the seeds of its own destruction. The reformers' commitment to a system that was less unequal--albeit not truly equal--and more like the North led to significant policy changes over time. As Johnson powerfully demonstrates, our lack of knowledge about the cumulative policy transformations resulting from the Jim Crow reform impulse impoverishes our understanding of the Civil Rights revolution. Reforming Jim Crow rectifies that.
Rules Enabling Act
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and the Administration of JusticePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bankruptcy
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
ORRRC Study Report
Author: Publisher:
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Category : National parks and reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description