Massive Resistance Southern Opposition to the Second Reconstruction

by Webb, Clive

• ISBN13: 9780195177855
• ISBN10: 0195177851
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-07-21
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Massive Resistance brings together ten essays that critically assess southern white resistance to school desegregation. The collection examines in close detail the practice of massive resistance, revealing the ideological and tactical divisions that characterized the southern white response to civil rights protest as well as the illusion of the union of racial moderates and extremists in what has been called a solid white South. The essays also look at white resistance through gender issues, the wider context of international Cold War politics, the critical backlash against Brown, religious and theological bases of resistance, the events of Little Rock, private education as an alternative to desegregation, and the intellectual foundations of massive resistance.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. ix
Chronology	p. xi
Introduction	p. 3
The Origins and Impact of Southern Resistance
Why Massive Resistance?	p. 21
Brown and Backlash	p. 39
A Political Coup d'Etat? How the Enemies of Earl Long Overwhelmed Racial Moderation in Louisiana	p. 56
"Massive Resistance and Minimum Compliance": The Origins of the 1957 Little Rock School Crisis and the Failure of School Desegregation in the South	p. 76
The Fight for "Freedom of Association": Segregationist Rights and Resistance in Atlanta	p. 99
Segregationist Ideology
White South, Red Nation: Massive Resistance and the Cold War	p. 117
Disunity and Religious Institutions in the White South	p. 136
The Theology of Massive Resistance: Sex, Segregation, and the Sacred after Brown	p. 151
White Womanhood, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Massive Resistance	p. 181
Massive Resistance, Violence, and Southern Social Relations: The Little Rock, Arkansas, School Integration Crisis, 1954-1960	p. 203
Bibliographic Essay	p. 221
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