The Cost of the Vote

George Elmore and the Battle for the Ballot

Carolyn Click (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2025
University of South Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-64336-512-1 (ISBN)

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On August 13, 1946, George Elmore arrived at his regular polling place in Columbia, South Carolina. He requested a ballot to vote in the Democratic Party primary but was turned away. In this book, Carolyn Click tells the story of Elmore and the activists and lawyers who successfully challenged the all-white primary in South Carolina.

Carolyn Click is a long-time journalist, first in Virginia, where she was the Virginia editor for United Press International (UPI). She came to The State in 1994 where she worked as both and editor and a reporter. She received the James K. Batten Knight Ridder Excellence Award in 2003 for coverage of civil rights. Currently she is an instructor at the University of South Carolina School of Journalism and Mass Communications.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	14.1.2025
Zusatzinfo	20 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort	South Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-64336-512-6 / 1643365126
ISBN-13	978-1-64336-512-1 / 9781643365121
Zustand	Neuware