Title: The rise of massive resistance; race and politics in the South during the 1950's
Authors: Bartley, Numan V.
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Year: 1969
Subjects: African Americans Southern States; Southern States Race relations.; Southern States Politics and government
Abstract: This book attempts to describe and evaluate the rise of massive resistance to public school desegregation that occurred in the Southern United States during much of the 1950s.
Contents: The South at Mid-Century -- The Dixiecrats and the rise of Neobourbonism -- The presidential election of 1952 and Southern State Policies -- The Brown decision and the federal government -- The reaction to the Brown decision -- The citizens' councils -- the political power structure -- Interposition -- Third party policies in 1956 and the search for Political Unity -- Propaganda -- The quest for conformity: Part I -- The quest for conformity: Part II -- The rationale of massive resistance -- Little rock and the test of a doctrine -- The climax of massive resistance -- Southern Institutions -- A thermidorean reaction -- Looking back: An evaluation of massive resistance.