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Black Freedom, White Resistance, and Red Menace : Civil Rights and Anticommunism in the Jim Crow South
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Black Freedom, White Resistance, and Red Menace : Civil Rights and Anticommunism in the Jim Crow South / Yasuhiro Katagiri.
ISBN
9780807153147
9780807153154
9780807153161
9780807153130
Publication
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2014]
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
Copyright Notice Date
©[2014]
Physical Description
1 online resource (432 pages).
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Summary
In Black Freedom, White Resistance, and Red Menace, Yasuhiro Katagiri offers the first scholarly work to illuminate an important but largely unstudied aspect of civil rights history--the collaborative and mutually beneficial relationship between professional anti-Communists in the North and segregationist politicians in the South. In 1954, the Supreme Court outlawed racial segregation in public schools with the Brown v. Board of Education ruling. Soon after--while the political demise of U.S. senator Joseph R. McCarthy unfolded--northern anti-Communists looked to the South as a promising new territory in which they could expand their support base and continue their cause. In response, southern segregationists embraced the assistance rendered by these Yankee collaborators, and in the years to come, southerners utilized the "northern messiahs" in executing a massive resistance to the Supreme Court's desegregation decrees and the civil rights movement in general. Southern white leadership framed black southerners' crusades for social justice and human dignity as a foreign scheme directed by nefarious outside agitators, "race-mixers," and, worse, outright subversives and card-carrying Communists. Based on years of extensive archival research, Black Freedom, White Resistance, and Red Menace explains how a southern version of McCarthyism became part of the opposition to the civil rights movement in the South, leading to a deeper understanding and appreciation for what the freedom movement--and those who struggled for equality--fought to overcome.
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Project MUSE books annual backfile collection 2021.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 13, 2023
Series
Making the modern South
Contents
Crying aloud and sparing not: Myers G. Lowman, J.B. Matthews, and the politics of insecurity
"Communism and integration are inseparable": Louisiana as the harbinger of segregationist anti-communist inquisitions in the South
With unwisdom, injustice, and immoderation: a southern-flavored McCarthyism in Georgia
"A peaceful people have been torn asunder by the communist conspiracy": the Little Rock desegregation crisis in Arkansas as a turning point in massive resistance
"Run 'em out, boys, run 'em out": webs of suspicion, suppression, and suffocation in Tennessee and Florida
"We must identify the traitors in our midst": red hearings, red herrings, and red Machiavellianism in Mississippi
"This is a part of the world communist conspiracy": the white South's desperate stand against the civil and voting rights acts
Conclusion. "No lie can live forever": from massive resistance to massive fallacy.
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History.
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