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Massive Resistance Southern Opposition to the Second Reconstruction
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Brings together ten essays that critically assess southern white resistance to school desegregation. This collection examines the practice of massive resistance, revealing the ideological and tacti...
Brings together ten essays that critically assess southern white resistance to school desegregation. This collection examines the practice of massive resistance, revealing the ideological and tactical divisions that characterized the southern white response to civil rights protest. It also looks at white resistance through gender issues.
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- New York : Oxford University Press, 2005
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- 1 online resource (259 p.)
- ISBNs
- 0195177851, 019517786X, 1280534605, 9780198039563, 9781423785095, 9781280534607, 9780195177855, 9780195177862, 1423785096, 0198039565, 019029227X
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- ocm56729719, ocn476009886
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- Contents; Contributors; Chronology; Introduction; 1 Why Massive Resistance?; 2 Brown and Backlash; 3 A Political Coup d'État? How the Enemies of Earl Long Overwhelmed Racial Moderation in Louisiana; 4 "Massive Resistance and Minimum Compliance": The Origins of the 1957 Little Rock School Crisis and the Failure of School Desegregation in the South; 5 The Fight for "Freedom of Association": Segregationist Rights and Resistance in Atlanta; 6 White South, Red Nation: Massive Resistance and the Cold War; 7 Disunity and Religious Institutions in the White South
- 8 The Theology of Massive Resistance: Sex, Segregation, and the Sacred after Brown9 White Womanhood, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Massive Resistance; 10 Massive Resistance, Violence, and Southern Social Relations: The Little Rock, Arkansas, School Integration Crisis, 1954-1960; Bibliographic Essay; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Subjects
- White people -- Politics and government -- 20th century -- Southern States -- Congresses
- Government, Resistance to -- History -- 20th century -- Southern States -- Congresses
- African Americans -- History -- Civil rights -- 20th century -- Southern States -- Congresses
- Massive resistance (Southern states history, 1956-1964) -- Congresses