Mothers of massive resistance : white women and the politics of white supremacy

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"They are often seen in photos of crowds in the mid-century South--white women shooting down blacks with looks of pure hatred. Yet it is the male white supremacists who have been the focus of the literature on white resistance to Civil Rights. This groundbreaking first book recovers the daily w...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McRae, Elizabeth Gillespie (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
White supremacy movements > United States > History > 20th century.
Women, White > Political activity > United States > History.
Women, White > United States > Attitudes > History > 20th century.
Women, White > United States > Social life and customs > 20th century.
Segregation > United States > History > 20th century.
Race discrimination > United States > History > 20th century.
Racism > United States > History > 20th century.
Racism.
United States > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Segregation's constant gardeners
  • Massive support for segregation, 1920-1941
  • The color line in Virginia: the home grown production of white supremacy
  • Citizenship education for a segregated nation
  • Campaigning for a Jim Crow south
  • Jim Crow storytelling
  • Massive resistance to the black freedom struggle, 1942-1974
  • Partisan betrayals: a bad woman, weak white men, and the end of a party
  • Jim Crow's international enemies and nationwide allies
  • Threats within: black southerners, 1954-1956
  • White women, white youth, and the hope of the nation
  • Conclusion: the new national face of segregation: Boston women against busing.

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