Massive Resistance

The White Response to the Civil Rights Movement

By: George Lewis

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Paperback | 1 February 2007 | Edition Number 1

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Massive Resistance is a compelling account of the white segregationist opposition to the US civil rights movement from the late 1940s to the mid-1960s. It provides vivid insights into what sparked the confrontations in US society during the run-up to the major civil rights laws that transformed America's social and political landscape. George Lewis has written a comprehensive overview of this controversial era of US history using his own research and interpretation, as well as new work by other experts in the field. The book concentrates on the political complexities of a campaign rooted in the white South that was intent on forestalling the march to racial equality. Themes covered include a white supremacist reading of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence; regional arguments for a 'distinctive' South; social and political doctrines of racial separatism as the core of southern identity; political oppression for the maintenance of white power; the role of physical intimidation and economic arguments used by the Ku Klux Klan. Lewis's authoritative work on southern segregationists and what drove them to oppose civil rights reform is a valuable resource for students of twentieth century American history.

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"Unravels the complex and intricate webs that were part and parcel of what is referred to as massive resistance. His scholarly approach, impressive organization of the material, and the overally quality and clarity of his narrative collectively contribute to Massive Resistance being an important contribution to the field of American studies... (An) important and much needed contribution to historical scholarship on an important and perhaps neglected side of the civil rights era. If one were to choose one book on this particular subject, I believe this volume should be the one." --Joseph Michael Gratale, European Association of American Studies

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The origins of massive resistance	p. 1
'Massive resistance' : meanings and metaphors	p. 1
The impact of histories	p. 5
The concomitant conversations of resistance	p. 8
Patterns of segregation, traditions of supremacy	p. 12
The selective rhetoric of resistance	p. 20
The timing and trajectory of 'massive' resistance	p. 23
Brown and its aftermath, 1954-1956	p. 27
Political responses to Brown : diffidence and indecision	p. 27
Mixed messages from the grassroots : referendums in Louisiana and Georgia	p. 31
An alternative model : Hoxie, Arkansas	p. 35
The citizens' councils : aims, organization and propaganda tactics	p. 39
The case of Emmett Till	p. 47
The southern legislative response to Brown : three case studies	p. 50
North Carolina and the progressive facade	p. 51
Virginia and the role of personal politics	p. 52
Louisiana : 'neo-populism' versus 'neo-Bourbonism'	p. 60
Resisters in search of homogeneity : interposition and the Southern Manifesto	p. 62
Resistance rampant, 1956-1960	p. 71
Massive resistance and the Cold War	p. 71
Massive resistance and religion	p. 75
Massive resistance in Alabama : setback and success	p. 77
Grassroots militancy : Mansfield, Sturgis, Clay and Clinton	p. 79
The 1957 Little Rock schools crisis	p. 81
Selecting the enemies of resistance : the campaign against the NAACP	p. 90
The day-to-day terror of grassroots resistance	p. 99
The increasing sophistication of resistance propaganda	p. 105
Responsive resistance, c. 1960-1965	p. 113
The 1960 New Orleans school crisis	p. 114
The continuing refinement of the resistance canon	p. 120
Massive resistance and the north	p. 126
Losing the initiative : resistance, reaction and the sit-ins	p. 130
Open violence on a national stage : massive resistance meets the freedom rides	p. 137
James Meredith and massive resistance at Ole Miss	p. 145
George C. Wallace and the schoolhouse door : the Appomattox of segregation?	p. 153
Resisting non-violent direct action : Laurie Pritchett, Bull Connor and Jim Clark	p. 155
The confederate chameleon	p. 161
Resistance moves to Washington : opposition to the 1964 Civil Rights Act	p. 161
An end to massive resistance?	p. 167
A 'second generation of subterfuges'	p. 171
The politics of southern resistance on a national stage : George C. Wallace	p. 174
State-level resisters and the quest for a northern audience	p. 176
From massive resistance to individual rights	p. 180
The dissolution of massive resistance	p. 185
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