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Carter III, Hodding

 
9781496840288: The South Strikes Back (Civil Rights in Mississippi Series)
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ISBN 10: 1496840283 ISBN 13: 9781496840288
Editorial: University Press of Mississippi, 2022

Sinopsis

In The South Strikes Back, Hodding Carter III describes the birth of the white Citizens’ Council in the Mississippi Delta and its spread throughout the South. Carter begins with a brief historical overview and traces the formation of the Council, its treatment of African Americans, and its impact on white communities, concluding with an analysis of the Council’s future in Mississippi.

Through economic boycott, social pressure, and political influence, the Citizens’ Council was able to subdue its opponents and dominate the communities in which it operated. Carter considers trends working against the Council—the federal government’s efforts to improve voting rights for African Americans, economic growth within African American communities, and especially the fact that the Citizens’ Council was founded on the defense of segregation's status quo and dedicated to its preservation. As Carter writes in the final chapter, “Defense of the status quo, as history has shown often enough, is an arduous task at best. When, in a democracy such as ours, it involves the repression of a minority, it becomes an impossibility.”

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Hodding Carter III is an American journalist and politician. He is professor emeritus of public policy at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Carter worked for eighteen years as a reporter and editor for the Delta Democrat-Times of Greenville, Mississippi, owned by his father. Stephanie R. Rolph is associate professor of history at Millsaps College. She is author of Resisting Equality: The Citizens’ Council, 1954–1989.

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Editorial
University Press of Mississippi
Año de publicación
2022
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1496840283
ISBN 13 
9781496840288
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
194
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