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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777642803321

Autore

Webb Clive

Titolo

Massive Resistance [[electronic resource] ] : Southern Opposition to the Second Reconstruction

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005

ISBN

1-280-53460-5

0-19-803956-5

1-4237-8509-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (259 p.)

Disciplina

305.89607307509045

Soggetti

African Americans

Civil rights

Government, Resistance to

History

Massive resistance (Southern states history, 1956-1964)

Politics and government

Southern States - Race relations - Congresses

White people

White people - Politics and government - 20th century - Southern States

Government, Resistance to - History - 20th century - Southern States

African Americans - History - Civil rights - 20th century - Southern States

Gender & Ethnic Studies

Social Sciences

Ethnic & Race Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.