Author: Southern Education Reporting Service
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: United States. Office of Education
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children with social disabilities
Languages : en
Pages : 84

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: Southern Education Reporting Service
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 62

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1080

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: Joseph Crespino
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400832713
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 382

Get Book Here

Book Description
In the 1960s, Mississippi was the heart of white southern resistance to the civil-rights movement. To many, it was a backward-looking society of racist authoritarianism and violence that was sorely out of step with modern liberal America. White Mississippians, however, had a different vision of themselves and their country, one so persuasive that by 1980 they had become important players in Ronald Reagan's newly ascendant Republican Party. In this ambitious reassessment of racial politics in the deep South, Joseph Crespino reveals how Mississippi leaders strategically accommodated themselves to the demands of civil-rights activists and the federal government seeking to end Jim Crow, and in so doing contributed to a vibrant conservative countermovement. Crespino explains how white Mississippians linked their fight to preserve Jim Crow with other conservative causes--with evangelical Christians worried about liberalism infecting their churches, with cold warriors concerned about the Communist threat, and with parents worried about where and with whom their children were schooled. Crespino reveals important divisions among Mississippi whites, offering the most nuanced portrayal yet of how conservative southerners bridged the gap between the politics of Jim Crow and that of the modern Republican South. This book lends new insight into how white Mississippians gave rise to a broad, popular reaction against modern liberalism that recast American politics in the closing decades of the twentieth century.

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 968

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 992

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: Brian J. Daugherity
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813938902
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289

Get Book Here

Book Description
Virginia was a battleground state in the struggle to implement Brown v. Board of Education, with one of the South’s largest and strongest NAACP units fighting against a program of noncompliance crafted by the state’s political leaders. Keep On Keeping On offers a detailed examination of how African Americans and the NAACP in Virginia successfully pursued a legal agenda that provided new educational opportunities for the state’s black population in the face of fierce opposition from segregationists and the Democratic Party of Harry F. Byrd Sr. Keep On Keeping On is the first book to offer a comprehensive view of African Americans’ efforts to obtain racial equality in Virginia in the later twentieth century. Brian J. Daugherity considers the relationship between the various levels of the NAACP, the ideas and actions of other African American organizations, and the stances of Virginia’s political leaders, white liberals and moderates, and segregationists. In doing so, the author provides a better understanding of the connections between the actions of white political leaders and those of black civil rights activists working to bring about school desegregation. Blending social, legal, southern, and African American history, this book sheds new light on the civil rights movement and white resistance to civil rights in Virginia and the South.

Author: John Howard
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226354712
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 438

Get Book Here

Book Description
Howard's unparalleled history of "queer" life in the South shows how homosexuality flourished in the conservative institutions of small-town life, interspersing the life stories of both the ordinary and the famous. 22 halftones. 4 maps.

Author: Educational Research Information Center (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 550

Get Book Here

Book Description