UID:
edocfu_9959240561102883
Format:
1 online resource (305 pages).
ISBN:
0-8203-5418-X
Series Statement:
Politics and culture in the twentieth-century South
Content:
"In this narrative account of school desegregation in Alabama, I uncover critical changes in segregationist strategy which allowed whites to engage in a long resistance movement, well after most historians consider 'massive resistance' to have ended. Using a malleable language of 'law and order' in their efforts to thwart desegregation litigation--including the landmark Lee v. Macon County Board of Education case--whites learned to protect what rights and privilege they could by crafting superficially race-neutral legislation designed to withstand court scrutiny. Scholars have explained how whites framed their flight to suburbs and private schools as protecting their right to associate with those of their own choosing, but I reveal here an even more damaging and enduring fight to protect white money. Using the lessons learned in the school desegregation battle, legislators in Alabama in the 1970s erected barriers to white taxation that continue to cripple public education in heavily black areas. And they have, more recently, achieved their longtime goal of funding racially exclusive private schools. In ongoing litigation, politicians who enacted these laws, and white communities which continue to secede from county school systems, insist that their motivations have nothing to do with race. Those who read this book will know better"--
Note:
"The NAACP organized--why not you," 1954-1960 -- "Our most historical moment," 1962-1963 -- "Now a single shot can do it," 1964-1966 -- "More than a mere word of promise," 1966-1968 -- "Depths of disillusionment," 1968-1970 -- Swann song, 1970-1973 -- Epilogue. "If ever is going to happen": 1973-2017.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8203-5483-X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8203-5419-8
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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