Format:
Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9781617033131
Content:
"Mississippi: The Closed Society is a book about an insurrection in modern America, more particularly, about the social and historical background of that insurrection. It is written by a historian who, on September 30, 1962, witnessed the long night of riot that exploded on the campus of the University of Mississippi at Oxford. Students, and later, adults with no connection with the university, attacked U.S. marshals sent to the campus to protect James H. Meredith, the first African American to attend Ole Miss. In the first part of Mississippi: The Closed Society, Silver describes how the state's commitment to the doctrine of white supremacy led to a situation in which continued intransigence (and possibly violence) seemed the only course left in massive resistance. In these chapters the author speaks in the more formal measures of the historian. In the second part of the book, "Some Letters from the Closed Society," he reproduces (among other correspondence and memoranda) a series of his letters to friends and family--and critics--in the days and weeks after the insurrection. Here he reveals himself personally and forcefully. In both parts of the book Silver bares the mind and heart of a southerner haunted by cataclysmic events. This essential, seminal book, back in print, is prominent in the bibliographies of every civil rights history that followed its publication"--
Note:
Originally published: New York : Harcourt, Brace & World, 1966
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Includes index
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Cover; CONTENTS; A NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR; PART ONE; 1. The Establishment of Orthodoxy; 2. The Voices of Militancy; 3. The Voices of Acquiescence; 4. The Closed Society and the Negro; APPENDIX: On Voting in the Closed Society; 5. The Great Confrontation and Its Aftermath; APPENDIX: On Reading the Constitution in the Closed Society; 6. The Voices of Dissent and the Future of the Closed Society; PART TWO; Some Letters from the Closed Society; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781118173275 (pbk.)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781617033124
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Mississippi
Language:
English
