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SOURCE: New York Times
1/23/2021
How Alvin the Beagle Helped Usher in a Democratic Senate
On the surface, Raphael Warnock's campaign ads featured a cute beagle. But they reflected a calculated – and successful – effort to counter racial dynamics in Georgia politics to bring about a historic victory.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
1/21/2021
Georgia’s New Senators will Write the Next Chapter in Black-Jewish Relations
by Jeff Melnick
The history of the Leo Frank trial and lynching shows that, while both groups have faced prejudice and discrimination, "the glory of Black-Jewish relations has always been more aspirational than achieved." Georgia's two new senators have a chance to advance a coalition for progress and equity.
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SOURCE: CNN
1/10/2020
Black Southerners are Wielding Political Power that was Denied their Parents and Grandparents
While the voter mobilization efforts that tipped Georgia's senate races to the Democrats have been much-discussed, they capitalized on a long-term shift in the Black population to the urban and suburban south, a "reverse great migration" that will be politically consequential for years to come.
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1/10/2021
Historical Rhetoric Resurfaced in Georgia's Runoff Election
by Alicia K. Jackson
Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock didn't just defeat their Republican opponents on January 5, they defeated a number of racist tropes that have characterized Georgia politics since Reconstruction.
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SOURCE: TIME
1/7/2021
'Another Milestone in the Long, Long Road.' Rev. Raphael Warnock's Georgia Senate Victory Made History in Multiple Ways
by Olivia B. Waxman
Historians including Adam Domby and Kali Nicole Gross relate the symbolic and political significance of Rev. Raphael Warnock's victory in Georgia's senate runoff. But that history suggests gains in Black political power will face backlash, warns Carol Anderson.
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SOURCE: New York Times
1/5/2021
Will the Democrats Win in Georgia?
by Jason Sokol
Eugene Talmadge served three terms as Georgia's governor through a combination of racism, attacks on government, and a state electoral system that grossly overrepresented rural whites. The January 5 runoff will test whether at least one of those dynamics has changed in Georgia politics.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
1/3/2021
Ebenezer Baptist: MLK’s Church Makes New History In Georgia’s Senate Runoff
Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church was an incubator of the fight for voting rights; its current pastor seeks election as Georgia's U.S. Senator.
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SOURCE: USA Today
1/4/2021
Georgia's Rural Black Voters were Ignored and Suppressed. Now they Might Flip the Senate
Takeo Spikes, a native of Washington County, Georgia, retired from the NFL to earn and MBA and serves on the board of the New Georgia Project. He says that Black Georgians are realizing their power at the polls after decades of vote suppression and political discouragement.
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SOURCE: New York Times
1/2/2021
‘Year of the Reveal’: Runoffs Follow Pandemic, Protests and a Test of Atlanta’s Promise
Civil rights historian Calinda Lee places Atlanta at the center of political and economic changes in the south, but whether the change is deep or superficial remains to be seen.
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SOURCE: WBUR
1/4/2021
The Racial History Of Georgia's Runoff Elections
Political scientists examine the establishment of Georgia's runoff election procedures as part of historical efforts to limit the power of Black voters in the state.
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SOURCE: Bill Moyers
12/15/2020
Decades of Inequality Shadow Voter Turnout in Rural Georgia
A small-town voter drive reveals why only trusted family, friends and local leaders can boost turnout in the Senate runoffs.
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12/20/2020
Georgia Election Official Joins Long Line of Voices to Call for ‘Living in Truth'
by Jeffrey H. Jackson
"History shows us that people -- sometimes one at a time -- can defend the truth by pointing out what everyone knows but which the powerful sometimes refuse to believe."
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Terror in the City Too Busy to Hate: How the English Avenue School Bombing Challenged Atlanta’s Popular Myth of Racial Progress
by Max Blau and Todd Michney
Months before Atlanta’s public schools desegregated, someone bombed an all-Black school on the city’s Westside. On the 60th anniversary of that incident, Max Blau and Todd Michney revisit the forces that led to the attack and reflect on its legacy.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
12/10/2020
The Long History of Black Women Organizing in Georgia Might Decide Senate Control
by Danielle Phillips-Cunningham
Black women in Georgia have long been leaders in building coalitions for political rights, labor protection, and equal justice under law. It's fitting that Black women have been leaders in the state's political shift toward the Democrats.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
12/8/2020
Even if Georgia Turns Blue, North Carolina may not Follow
by Michael Bitzer and Virginia Summey
North Carolina's politics have long been characterized by a competition between fairly evenly balanced forces of conservatism and moderation. Democrats who hope to permanently tip the state in their favor are likely to be disappointed.
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SOURCE: New York Times
12/9/2020
How Atlanta’s Politics Overtook the Suburbs, Too
Kevin Kruse is among the scholars of Atlanta who offer insight on how the growth of the metro area has overcome the division between the city and its suburbs and turned Georgia purple.
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SOURCE: New York Times
11/14/2020
Democrats Work to Defy History in Georgia Runoffs That Have Favored G.O.P.
Georgia's runoff election laws were instituted in response to a 1960s Supreme Court decision to eliminate the "county unit" system that had overrepresented white rural voters at the expense of urban and Black Georgians.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
11/7/2020
There’s A Long History Behind Stacey Abrams
Historian Martha S. Jones places Stacey Abrams's political leadership in Georgia in the historical context of Black women's political organizing and activism.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
11/7/2020
Georgia’s Political Shift – a Tale of Urban and Suburban Change
by Jan Nijman
If Georgia is demographically and politically becoming unlike neighboring Republican strongholds like Alabama and Tennessee, it has, in some respects, moved in a similar direction as Arizona, where the two major metropolitan regions of Phoenix and Tucson make up over 80% of the state’s population, and where Democrats have improved their standing in recent years.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
11/5/2020
A Disputed Election Delivered 3 governors to Georgia – at the Same Time
by John A. Tures
As election results continue to come in around the country, it’s worth recalling that once, the state of Georgia found itself with a dead governor-elect – and three politicians who each insisted he was the real governor.