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"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. "--
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Politics and government, Race relations, Resistance to Government, Whites, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, Civil rights, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, Attitudes, Segregation, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations, Political aspects, African Americans, History, Civil rights, united states, African americans, segregation, Government, resistance to, Southern states, race relationsPlaces
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Defending White Democracy: The Making of a Segregationist Movement and the Remaking of Racial Politics, 1936-1965
2014, University of North Carolina Press
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Defending white democracy: the making of a segregationist movement and the remaking of racial politics, 1936-1965
2011, The University of North Carolina Press
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Defending White Democracy: The Making of a Segregationist Movement and the Remaking of Racial Politics, 1936-1965
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Defending White Democracy: The Making of a Segregationist Movement and the Remaking of Racial Politics, 1936-1965
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