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

Other author Webb, Clive, 1970-
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Descriptionxiv, 244 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
White people--Southern States. --Politics and government. --20th century. --Congresses.
Government, Resistance to--Southern States. --History. --20th century. --Congresses.
African Americans--Civil rights. --Southern States. --History. --20th century. --Congresses.
Southern States--Race relations. --Congresses.
Southern States--Politics and government. --1951-. --Congresses.
Southern States--Social conditions. --1945-. --Congresses.

Contents Why massive resistance? / Michal J. Klarman -- Brown and backlash / Tony Badger -- A political coup d'état? how the enemies of Earl Long overwhelmed racial moderation in Louisiana / Adam Fairclough -- "Massive resistance and minimum compliance": the origins of the 1957 Little Rock school crisis and the failure of school desegregation in the South / John A. Kirk -- The fight for "freedom of association": segregationalist rights and resistance in Atlanta / Kevin M. Kruse -- White South, red nation: massive resistance and the Cold War / George Lewis -- Disunity and religious institutions in the white South / David L. Chappell -- The theology of massive resistance: sex, segregation, and the sacred after Brown / Jane Dailey -- White womanhood, white supremacy, and the rise of massive resistance / Elizabeth Gillespie McRae -- Massive resistance, violence, and Southern social relations: the Little Rock, Arkansas, school integration crisis, 1954-1960 / Karen S. Anderson
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 221-230) and index.
LCCN 2004059981
ISBN0195177851 (acid-free paper)
ISBN019517786X (pbk. : acid-free paper)