Black freedom, white resistance, and red menace : civil rights and anticommunism in the Jim Crow South / Yasuhiro Katagiri.
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Language: | English |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
[2014]
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Series: | Making the modern South.
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Physical Description: | xxvii, 392 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Format: | Book |
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.