Massive resistance : southern opposition to the second reconstruction / / edited by Clive Webb

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910812468103321
• 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.)
• Altri autori (Persone): WebbClive <1970->
• Disciplina: 305.896/073075/09045
• Soggetti: Whites - Southern States - Politics and government - 20th century; Government, Resistance to - Southern States - History - 20th century; African Americans - Civil rights - Southern States - History - 20th century; School integration - Massive resistance movement; Southern States Race relations Congresses; Southern States Politics and government 1951- Congresses; Southern States Social conditions 1945- Congresses
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-230) and index.
• 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.