Brooks, Jennifer E.

Defining the peace World War II veterans, race, and the remaking of Southern political tradition / [electronic resource] : Jennifer E. Brooks. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2004. - xi, 256 p. : ill., 1 map.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-250) and index.

Introduction : World War II veterans and the politics of postwar change in Georgia -- The ballot must be our weapon : Black veterans and the politics of racial change -- The question of majority rule : White veterans and the politics of progressive reform -- Is this what we fought the war for? union veterans and the politics of labor -- We are not radicals, neither are we reactionaries : good government, veterans and the politics of modernization -- Hitler is not dead but has found refuge in Georgia : the General Assembly of 1947 and the limits of progress.


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World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--Georgia.
Veterans--Political activity.--Georgia


Georgia--Politics and government--20th century.


Electronic books.

D810.V42 / U63 2004eb

305.9/0697/0975809045