LEADER 03931nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910817137903321 005 20230126205648.0 010 $a1-283-57911-1 010 $a9786613891563 010 $a1-61703-313-8 035 $a(CKB)2670000000238843 035 $a(EBL)1014763 035 $a(OCoLC)769289638 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000705523 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12329302 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000705523 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10621536 035 $a(PQKB)10460032 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16035896 035 $a(PQKB)22246069 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1014763 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse24783 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4977806 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1014763 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10595828 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4977806 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL389156 035 $a(OCoLC)817810393 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000238843 100 $a20111215e20121964 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMississippi$b[electronic resource] $ethe closed society /$fJames W. Silver 210 $aJackson $cUniversity Press of Mississippi$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (281 p.) 300 $aOriginally published: New York : Harcourt, Brace & World, 1964. 300 $a"First University Press of Mississippi printing 2012"--T.p. verso. 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-61703-312-X 327 $aCover; CONTENTS; A NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR; PART ONE; 1. The Establishment of Orthodoxy; 2. The Voices of Militancy; 3. The Voices of Acquiescence; 4. The Closed Society and the Negro; APPENDIX: On Voting in the Closed Society; 5. The Great Confrontation and Its Aftermath; APPENDIX: On Reading the Constitution in the Closed Society; 6. The Voices of Dissent and the Future of the Closed Society; PART TWO; Some Letters from the Closed Society; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y 330 $a"Mississippi: The Closed Society is a book about an insurrection in modern America, more particularly, about the social and historical background of that insurrection. It is written by a historian who, on September 30, 1962, witnessed the long night of riot that exploded on the campus of the University of Mississippi at Oxford. Students, and later, adults with no connection with the university, attacked U.S. marshals sent to the campus to protect James H. Meredith, the first African American to attend Ole Miss. In the first part of Mississippi: The Closed Society, Silver describes how the state's commitment to the doctrine of white supremacy led to a situation in which continued intransigence (and possibly violence) seemed the only course left in massive resistance. In these chapters the author speaks in the more formal measures of the historian. In the second part of the book, "Some Letters from the Closed Society," he reproduces (among other correspondence and memoranda) a series of his letters to friends and family--and critics--in the days and weeks after the insurrection. Here he reveals himself personally and forcefully. In both parts of the book Silver bares the mind and heart of a southerner haunted by cataclysmic events. This essential, seminal book, back in print, is prominent in the bibliographies of every civil rights history that followed its publication"--Provided by publisher. 606 $aSocial problems$zMississippi 607 $aMississippi$xRace relations 607 $aMississippi$xPolitics and government$y1951- 615 0$aSocial problems 676 $a976.2 686 $aHIS036120$aSOC031000$aSOC001000$2bisacsh 700 $aSilver$b James W$g(James Wesley),$f1907-1988.$01684639 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910817137903321 996 $aMississippi$94056243 997 $aUNINA