The white South and the red menace
Subtitle: segregationists, anticommunism, and massive resistance, 1945-1965
By: George Lewis.
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
Subjects: African Americans -- Segregation -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century; Anti-communist movements -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century; Whites -- Southern States -- Politics and government -- 20th century; Government, Resistance to -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century; Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century; Cold War -- Social aspects -- Southern States; Southern States -- Race relations; Southern States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950; Southern States -- Politics and government -- 1951-
Description: "George Lewis explores the various and subtle ways that white southern segregationists used anticommunist rhetoric to undermine the civil rights movement. He examines the thoughts, traditions, and actions of those southerners from the end of the Second World War to the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the period when the movement put the South's segregated society under immense pressure." "Based on oral histories and the papers of southern politicians, journalists, and activists, this history shows how anticommunism intersected with other weapons in the arsenal of Massive Resistance."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-211) and index.