Bibliograph

Black freedom, white resistance, and red menace, civil rights and anticommunism in the Jim Crow South, Yasuhiro Katagiri

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Black freedom, white resistance, and red menace, civil rights and anticommunism in the Jim Crow South, Yasuhiro Katagiri

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-374) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Black freedom, white resistance, and red menace

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

841891422

Responsibility statement

Yasuhiro Katagiri

Series statement

Making the modern South

Sub title

civil rights and anticommunism in the Jim Crow South

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." -- From page 2 of cover

Table Of 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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