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Massive Resistance: Southern Opposition to the Second Reconstruction

By Clive Webb

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2005
ISBN
0195177851, 9780195177855, 9781423785095
LCC
E185.61 .M374 2005
Google Books ID
c1l38dY1V00C
Open Library ID
OL3310358M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
958 kB (981491 bytes)
Pages
259\259
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Massive Resistance brings together ten essays that critically assess southern white resistance to school desegregation. The collection examines in close detail the practice of massive resistance, revealing the ideological and tactical divisions that characterized the southern white response to civil rights protest as well as the illusion of the union of racial moderates and extremists in what has been called a solid white South. The essays also look at white resistance through gender issues, the wider context of international Cold War politics, the critical backlash against Brown, religious and theological bases of resistance, the events of Little Rock, private education as an alternative to desegregation, and the intellectual foundations of massive resistance.

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