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Title: Defending White Democracy: The Making of a Segregationist Movement and the Remaking of Racial Politics, 1936-1965
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC
Publication Date: 2011
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0807835137
ISBN 13: 9780807835135
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: New
Dust Jacket Condition: New
Dimensions: 2.54 centimeters width by 15.55 centimeters height by 23.5 centimeters depth
Weight: 526 grams

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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 dep

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Jason Morgan Ward is assistant professor of history at Mississippi State University.

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