num_pages: 440
description:  This in-depth account of the rise  and decline of the Citizens' Councils of America details the organization's  role in the massive resistance to school desegregation in the South following  the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision. Included are a new preface and  updated bibliography. "A tour de force of research and  narration. . . in highly readable style. [McMillen] . . . seems to have read  everything the historical record has to offer on the subject and to have known  exactly what to make of it. . . Himself squarely on the side of the future,  he is sensitive to the anguish that prompted the hysteria of the misguided racist. . . .  By any test, a masterful study." -- Journal of Southern History "Takes seriously the people who  made the movement, when ridicule and caricature would have been an easier analytical  technique. Solidly researched and well written. . . an intriguing story." --  Augustus M. Burns , Social Studies  
language: English
title: The Citizens' Council: Organized Resistance to the Second Reconstruction, 1954-64
titlecomplete: The Citizens' Council: Organized Resistance to the Second Reconstruction, 1954-64
genres: History
ratings_count: 12
publisher: University of Illinois Press