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Hardback. New. The decade following the 1954 Brown versus Board of Education decision saw white southerners mobilize in massive resistance to racial integration. This title turns traditional top-down models of massive resistance on their head by telling the story of five far-right activists who led grassroots rebellions. ISBN 0820327646 9780820327648 [GB]
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New. This title connects civil rights opponents to America's tradition of radical conservatism. The decade following the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision saw white southerners mobilize in massive resistance to racial integration. Most segregationists conceded that ultimately they could only postpone the demise of Jim Crow. Some militant whites, however, believed it possible to win the civil rights struggle. Histories of the black freedom struggle, when they mention these racist zealots at all, confine them to the margin of the story. These extremist whites are caricatured as ineffectual members of the lunatic fringe. Civil rights activists, however, saw them for what they really were: calculating, dangerous opponents prepared to use terrorism in their stand against reform. To dismiss white militants is to underestimate the challenge they posed to the movement and, in turn, the magnitude of civil rights activists' accomplishments. The extremists helped turn massive resistance into a powerful political phenomenon. While white southern elites struggled to mobilize mass opposition to racial reform, the militants led entire communities in revolt. "Rabble Rousers" turns traditional top-down models of massive resistance on their head by telling the story of five far-right activists - Bryant Bowles, John Kasper, Rear Admiral John Crommelin, Major General Edwin Walker, and J. B. Stoner - who led grassroots rebellions. It casts new light on such con ...
Athens University of Georgia Press 2010 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 304 p. Contains: Unspecified. Politics and Culture in the Twentieth-Century South, 10.
Athens University of Georgia Press 2010 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 304 p. Contains: Unspecified. Politics and Culture in the Twentieth-Century South, 10.
Athens University of Georgia Press 2010 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 304 p. Contains: Unspecified. Politics and Culture in the Twentieth-Century South, 10.
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