This study takes working-class conservatism seriously and refuses to wave it away as false consciousness. It offers a full account of the role of whiteness and white privilege in structuring such conservatism, and intriguing hints as to the role of local boosterism and gender politics in generating both quietism and activism.

—David Roediger, author of The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class

A very fine piece of historical scholarship, written with verve, grace, and clarity. It is clearly a significant contribution to the history of race and of southern labor and politics.

—Deborah Gray White, author of Too Heavy a Load: Black Women in Defense of Themselves, 1894-1994

A work of major importance . . . Will take its place alongside the best studies on labor and race in the twentieth-century South.

—Paul Harvey, H-South

[An] important study . . . exhaustively researched . . . her story has profound implications

—South Carolina Historical Magazine

A compelling, thoroughly researched monograph with a serious argument worth engaging.

—Journal of American History

Students of Georgia politics and history or of race and labor in the modern era will want to read this fine case study.

—American Historical Review