Black freedom, white resistance, and red menace [electronic resource] : civil rights and anticommunism in the Jim Crow South / Yasuhiro Katagiri.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Katagiri, Yasuhiro, 1960-
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2014]
Series:Making the modern South
Subjects:
African Americans > Civil rights > Southern States > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > Southern States > History > 20th century.
Communism > Southern States > History.
White supremacy movements > Southern States > History > 20th century.
Southern States > Race relations.
Southern States > Politics and government > 1865-1950.
Southern States > Politics and government > 1951-
Online Access:
ACLS Humanities Ebooks: 2014 (Handle.Net Permalink)
Variant Title:
Black Freedom, White Resistance, and Red Menace: Civil Rights and Anticommunism in the Jim Crow South
Format: Electronic eBook
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.