Umfang:
xxxi, 159 Seiten
ISBN:
9781496840288
,
9781496840233
Serie:
Civil Rights in Mississippi
Inhalt:
Introduction to the new edition / Stephanie R. Rolph -- Background for resistance -- The Councils form -- The Citizens' Councils and Mississippi politics (1955-58) -- The Citizens' Councils and the negro -- The Citizens' Councils and conformity in the white community -- The future of the Citizens' Councils in Mississippi.
Inhalt:
"In The South Strikes Back, Hodding Carter III describes the birth of the white Citizens' Council in the Mississippi Delta and its spread throughout the South. Carter begins with a brief historical overview and traces the formation of the Council, its treatment of African Americans, and its impact on white communities, concluding with an analysis of the Council's future in Mississippi. Through economic boycott, social pressure, and political influence, the Citizens' Council was able to subdue its opponents and dominate the communities in which it operated. Carter considers trends working against the Council-the federal government's efforts to improve voting rights for African Americans, economic growth within African American communities, and especially the fact that the Citizens' Council was founded on the defense of segregation's status quo and dedicated to its preservation. As Carter writes in the final chapter, "Defense of the status quo, as history has shown often enough, is an arduous task at best. When, in a democracy such as ours, it involves the repression of a minority, it becomes an impossibility.""--
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Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Carter, Hodding South strikes back Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2022]
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
USA
;
Citizens' Councils of America
;
Schwarze
;
Rassentrennung
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