Inside Agitators

White Southerners in the Civil Rights Movement

By: David L. Chappell

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Paperback | 14 June 1996

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How did the vastly outnumbered black Southerners in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s succeed against a white power structure that seemed uniformly hostile? Contrary to widespread belief, argues David Chappell, "inside agitators" - white southerners sympathetic to the cause of desegregation - played a crucial role. Chappell shows how years of experience gave black southerners unique insights into the strengths and weaknesses of "their" white folks. These insights helped black leaders not only to enlist the help of white liberals and moderates but also to manipulate hard-line segregationists into behavior that was often politically self-destructive. In short, Chappell contends, black southerners defeated segregation because they understood white southerners better than segregationists did. Case studies from Montgomery, Tallahassee, Little Rock, and Albany (Georgia) highlight the movement's successes and failures. Chappell then extends his analysis to the national government to show how white southerners became the chief instrument of federal intervention for civil rights. Based on more than seventy personal interviews as well as on previously unpublished material from the Martin Luther King papers and elsewhere, Inside Agitators provides a wide-ranging and insightful reinterpretation of the civil rights movement and the reasons for its triumph.

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""With keen insight, Chappell argues that not only were white southerners far from solid in their commitment to segregation during the civil rights era, but that the movement actively exploited and widened their divisions to achieve both local victories and federal intervention.""

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Foreword
Preface
Introduction
The Strange Career of Racial Dissent in the South
The "Silent South": The Founding Fathers of Southern White Dissent	p. 3
From Silence to Futility: Southern White Dissent Gets Organized	p. 25
The Strategy of Nonviolence and the Role of White Southerners in the Movement
The Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955-1956	p. 53
Tallahassee, 1956-1957	p. 84
Little Rock, 1957-1959	p. 97
Albany, Georgia, 1961-1962	p. 122
The Art of the Possible: The White Southerner in the National State
The Late 1950s: Saving the Party from Civil Rights	p. 147
Lyndon Johnson Takes Center Stage - and Then an Intermission	p. 169
Policy in High Gear: From the Justice Department to the Acts of 1964 and 1965	p. 189
Epilogue: Interpreting the Movement	p. 212
Abbreviations	p. 229
Notes	p. 231
Bibliographical Essay	p. 277
Index	p. 295
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