...kingmakers who wielded power in Richmond County for decades. The group included founder Roy V. Harris, a lawyer and Cracker Party politician, and others, such as state legislators Bernard Miles and Mike Padgett and former Richmond County Attorney...
...North Augusta and says he has found a level of support from local government he never saw in Augusta.In Augusta, old Cracker Party politics continues to prevail, he said, with southside leadership in particular tending to hold back progress...
The Cracker Party, renowned for its tenacity and reviled...County Historical Society ."The Augusta Cracker Party had its roots in the American Protestant...Evans was arrested after criticizing the Cracker Party during a high school football game...
...such as the poll tax in the South for many years after the 19th Amendment passed.In Augusta, a group known as the Cracker Party controlled politics for years, in part by blocking access to the polls. Interviewed for the documentary Augusta Remembers...
...and a 1946 major motion picture. Effingham's Raid is a slightly veiled story of the political shenanigans of the Cracker Party in Augusta. The follow-up novel, The Lightwood Tree , also dealt with the same theme. I had the privilege of working...
...restless" businessmen who were seeking to make a change in the local political landscape, which was then controlled by "Cracker Party" Democrats. What he and contemporaries including Roy Simkins, Chess Howard and Frank Troutman did in the early 1960s...
...the newspaper, taking on the staunchly conservative "Cracker Party" that had its headquarters in Augusta in the process. "My father stood up to (Cracker Party leader) Roy Harris so often they actually had a fistfight...
BACK IN TIME DEC. 13, 1942 Because of the war, it is possible for political opponents of the Cracker Party to wrest control of Augusta City Council within months. Frank X. May, 3rd Ward councilman, resigned last Monday to enter the...
...to vote. This vote will greatly affect our future. Sixty years ago, a group of concerned citizens ran the corrupt Cracker Party out of power. This laid the groundwork for Augusta's industrial boom and the Miracle Mile Development. Augusta's...
...the outlandish abuses of city government run by the Cracker Party in the 1930s and '40s. When he became fire chief in...Street. For the next two decades, John Kennedy and the Cracker Party wielded pervasive political power. A big man, Kennedy...
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