1. The voting rights act of 1965: a great divide
2. After the civil war: recreating 'the white man's Georgia'
3. The dawning of a new day: abolition of the white primary
4. Passage of the civil rights act of 1957: the white response
5. One person, one vote: the end of the county unit system and the malapportioned legislature and congressional delegation
6. The election code of 1964: twilight of the county unit legislature
7. The voting rights scene outside the golden dome
8. The voting rights act: how it works
9. Increased black registration: the white response
10. 1970 extension of the voting rights act: more white resistance
11. The 1975 extension of the voting rights act: the private enforcement campaign
12. Redistricting in the 1980s
13. 1982: voting rights in the balance
14. Continued enforcement of the voting rights act
15. The demise of Georgia's nineteenth-century voter registration system: taking stock of the impact of the voting rights act
16. Recreating the past: the challenge to the majority vote requirement
17. The white backlash: redistricting in the 1990s
18. Keysville, Georgia - a voting rights crusade.