History of Democracy in Putnam: 1900-50

“I have advocated the submission of a constitutional amendment that will forever insure the control of this state by the white people.”This was the campaign promise of Hoke Smith in his 1906 bid for Georgia governor. At the time, he was publisher of the Atlanta Journal. And he was elected.The first half of the 20th century in Putnam County was defined by a complex str...

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