Rumor, repression, and racial politics : how the harassment of Black elected officials shaped post-civil rights America / George Derek Musgrove.

"Historians have exhaustively documented how African Americans gained access to electoral politics in the mid-1960s, but few have scrutinized what happened next, and the small body of work that does consider the aftermath of the civil rights movement is almost entirely limited to the Black Power era...

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Main Author: Musgrove, George Derek, 1975-
Language:English
Published: Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2012.
Series:Since 1970.
Subjects:
African American politicians > History > 20th century.
Harassment > Political aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Race > Political aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Governmental investigations > United States > History > 20th century.
Prosecution > Political aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Civil Rights.
Physical Description:xiii, 296 pages : illustrations.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction : "a sense of history, not hysteria"
  • The white backlash and the roots of harassment ideology, 1965-1968
  • Black elected officials, white resistance, and the surveillance state, 1965-1974
  • Discovering "harassment" in the post-Watergate period, 1975-1980
  • Prosecution as political warfare in the Reagan and Bush years, 1981-1992
  • The "selective prosecution" of Black elected officials in Alabama, 1981-1992
  • The Center for the Study of the Harassment of African Americans and the decline of antiharassment organizing, 1987-1995
  • Conclusion : political warfare ascendant
  • Appendix. State Scrutiny of Black Congresspeople, 1929-2010.