{"product_id":"the-cost-of-the-vote-george-elmore-and-the-battle-for-the-ballot-hardcover","title":"The Cost of the Vote: George Elmore and the Battle for the Ballot - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCarolyn Click\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne man's fight for the ballot reveals the sacrifices of those who shaped the civil rights movement in the American South\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn 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. While the general election would not occur until November, everyone in South Carolina understood that the results of the election would really be decided on that late summer afternoon. South Carolina was a one-party state, and the segregationist Democratic Party had endured as the uncontested rulers of state politics since the end of political Reconstruction in the late 1870s. No Black man or woman had cast a meaningful ballot in South Carolina in nearly as long. For Elmore and others in the state, the day had come to reclaim this most precious American right. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarolyn Click's \u003ci\u003eThe Cost of the Vote\u003c\/i\u003e centers on Elmore and the activists and lawyers who successfully challenged the all-white primary in South Carolina. Although Elmore's court challenge would prove successful, he paid a steep personal price. He died a decade after the case, ruined financially. His family was scattered because of the hostility provoked by his activism. The political rewards for Black voters also remained long in coming, and Elmore would not survive to see the full flowering of the 1960s voting rights movement. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Cost of the Vote\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of a man who believed, with uncommon boldness, that he and other Black Americans were guaranteed the right to vote.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarolyn Click\u003c\/b\u003e is a journalist and teacher. She was Virginia editor for United Press International and a reporter at the\u003ci\u003e Roanoke (Va.) Times\u003c\/i\u003e before coming to \u003ci\u003eThe State\u003c\/i\u003e in Columbia, South Carolina. After a newspaper career, Click taught in the University of South Carolina School of Journalism and Mass Communications and in USC's Honors College. She divides her time between South Carolina and her native Virginia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 232\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9.19 x 6.37 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 11, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51775187386656,"sku":"9781643365121","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/ae8edca9508c14ea8df9ed3618de2684.webp?v=1780459164","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-cost-of-the-vote-george-elmore-and-the-battle-for-the-ballot-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}