The reins of power : racial change and challenge in a southern county / Clinton McCarty.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McCarty, Clinton
Language:English
Published: Tallahassee, FL : Sentry Press, [1999], ©1999.
Subjects:
African Americans > Civil rights > Alabama > Wilcox County.
African Americans > Alabama > Wilcox County > Politics and government.
Civil rights movements > Alabama > Wilcox County > History > 20th century.
Wilcox County (Ala.) > Race relations.
Wilcox County (Ala.) > Politics and government > 20th century.
Physical Description:xiv, 374 pages : map ; 22 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction
  • bk. 1. Prologue. 1. Wilcox revisited ; 2. Settlers in the wild interior ; 3. Confrontation, secession, and war ; 4. Vindicators and pacificators ; 5. From redemption to a new century ; 6. Roseate clouds and rude realities ; 7. Segregation and depression ; 8. War, peace, and civil rights
  • bk. 2. Rebellion. 9. Battling for the ballot ; 10. The school fight begins ; 11. A five-year chess game ; 12. White flight, black boycott ; 13. The faculty desegregation crisis ; 14. Death of a desegregation effort ; 15. Pressing for political control
  • bk. 3. Control. 16. The harsh realities of power ; 17. New troubles in the schools ; 18. Persistent problems at the polls ; 19. The academic trial continues ; 20. Blacks and whites apart ; 21. Politics and power in Camden ; 22. Hopes and fears for the future
  • Epilogue
  • Acknowledgments
  • Bibliography
  • Source notes
  • Index.