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Author Ward, Jason Morgan.

Title Defending white democracy : the making of a segregationist movement and the remaking of racial politics, 1936-1965 / Jason Morgan Ward.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2011]
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 252 pages) : illustrations
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Contents Agitating falsely the race problem -- The white south's "double V" -- From white supremacists to "segregationists" -- Nationalizing race and southernizing freedom -- The rhetoric of responsible resistance -- The southern "minority" and the silent majority.
Summary "After the Supreme Court ruled school segregation unconstitutional in 1954, southern white backlash seemed to explode overnight. Journalists profiled the rise of a segregationist movement committed to preserving the "southern way of life" through a campaign of massive resistance. In Defending White Democracy, Jason Morgan Ward reconsiders the origins of this white resistance, arguing that southern conservatives began mobilizing against civil rights some years earlier, in the era before World War II, when the New Deal politics of the mid-1930s threatened the monopoly on power that whites held in the South. As Ward shows, years before "segregationist" became a badge of honor for civil rights opponents, many white southerners resisted racial change at every turn--launching a preemptive campaign aimed at preserving a social order that they saw as under siege. By the time of the Brown decision, segregationists had amassed an arsenal of tested tactics and arguments to deploy against the civil rights movement in the coming battles. Connecting the racial controversies of the New Deal era to the more familiar confrontations of the 1950s and 1960s, Ward uncovers a parallel history of segregationist opposition that mirrors the new focus on the long civil rights movement and raises troubling questions about the enduring influence of segregation's defenders."--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject Segregation -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
Segregation.
Southern States.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Segregation -- Political aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
Race relations.
Southern States -- Race relations -- Political aspects -- History -- 20th century.
White people -- Southern States -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
White people.
Politics and government.
White people -- Southern States -- Attitudes -- History -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Segregation -- Southern States -- History.
African Americans -- Segregation.
Civil rights -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights.
Government, Resistance to -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
Government, Resistance to.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Ward, Jason Morgan. Defending white democracy. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2011 9780807835135 (DLC) 2011015513 (OCoLC)711043308
ISBN 0807869228 (electronic book)
9780807869222 (electronic book)
9781469602547 (electronic book)
1469602547 (electronic book)
9780807835135 (hardback)
0807835137 (hardback)