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ISBN10: 0807129267, ISBN13: 9780807129265, [publisher: LSU Press] Softcover Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover. Aged book. Tanned pages and age spots, however, this will not interfere with reading.
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New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Black Struggle, Red Scare: Segregation and Anti-Communism in the South, 1948--1968. ISBN 0807129267 9780807129265 [GB]

ISBN10: 0807129267, ISBN13: 9780807129265, [publisher: LSU Press] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - At the height of the cold war, southern segregationists exploited the reigning mood of anxiety by linking the civil rights movement to an international Communist conspiracy. Jeff Woods tells a gripping story of fervent crusaders for racial equality swept into the maelstrom of the South's siege mentality, of crafty political opportunists who played upon white southerners' very real fear of Communists, and of a people who saw lurking enemies and detected red propaganda everywhere. In their strange double identity as both defiant Confederate flag-wavers fiercely protecting regional sovereignty and as American superpatriots, many southerners stood ready to defend against subversives be they red or black.Concentrating on the phenomenon at its most intense period, Woods makes vivid the fearful synergy that developed between racist forces and the anti-Communist cause, reveals the often illegal means used to wash the movement red, and documents the gross waste of public funds in pursuing an almost nonexistent threat. Though ultimately unsuccessful in convincing Americans outside of Dixie that the civil rights protests were controlled by Moscow, the southern red scare forced movement activists to distance themselves from the Marxist elements in their midst - thereby gaining the sympathy of the American people while losing the ...
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