In the fall of 1964, Bayliss published "Post-Reconstruction Repudiation: Evil Blot or Financial Necessity?" in ''The Arkansas Historical Quarterly,'' a study of the public debt that was accumulated during the era of Reconstruction and its subsequent repudiation by the [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] Redeemer state government.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DCgquh5Wrm4C&pg=PA225&lpg=PA225&dq=Garland+E.+Bayliss&source=bl&ots=be494youC3&sig=zMiQdtC9jJIFgVK2Ufx3mzhs1uQ&hl=en&ei=d-kTMfoLoP_8Abhy9WyDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CCoQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=Garland%20E.%20Bayliss&f=false.|author=John Michael Giggie|title=After Redemption: Jim Crow and the Transformation of African American Religion in the Delta, 1875-1915,|date=2008|pages=243–259|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=[[New York City]]|accessdate=May 31, 2020}}</ref> | In the fall of 1964, Bayliss published "Post-Reconstruction Repudiation: Evil Blot or Financial Necessity?" in ''The Arkansas Historical Quarterly,'' a study of the public debt that was accumulated during the era of Reconstruction and its subsequent repudiation by the [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] Redeemer state government.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DCgquh5Wrm4C&pg=PA225&lpg=PA225&dq=Garland+E.+Bayliss&source=bl&ots=be494youC3&sig=zMiQdtC9jJIFgVK2Ufx3mzhs1uQ&hl=en&ei=d-kTMfoLoP_8Abhy9WyDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CCoQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=Garland%20E.%20Bayliss&f=false.|author=John Michael Giggie|title=After Redemption: Jim Crow and the Transformation of African American Religion in the Delta, 1875-1915,|date=2008|pages=243–259|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=[[New York City]]|accessdate=May 31, 2020}}</ref> |