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Defending White Democracy

Ward, Jason Morgan

2011,2014,2013

Overview

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. InDefending 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 theBrowndecision, 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.

• Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press,University of North Carolina Press
• Subject: 20th century / African American Studies / African Americans / African Americans -- Segregation -- Southern States -- History / Attitudes / Civil rights / Civil rights -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century / Discrimination & Race Relations / Ethnic Studies / Government, Resistance to / Government, Resistance to -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century / History / Political aspects / Politics and government / Race relations / Segregation / Segregation -- Political aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century / Segregation -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Southern States / Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century / Southern States -- Race relations -- Political aspects -- History -- 20th century / White people-Southern States-Attitudes-History-20th century / White people-Southern States-Politics and government-20th century / Whites / Whites -- Southern States -- Attitudes -- History -- 20th century / Whites -- Southern States -- Politics and government -- 20th century
• ISBN: 0807835137, 9780807835135, 9780807869222, 0807869228, 9781469613871, 1469613875