Delaying the Dream : Southern Senators and the Fight Against Civil Rights, 1938-1965
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Making the Modern South
ISBN-10
0807137111
ISBN-13
9780807137116
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press
Imprint
Louisiana State University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 1st, 2010
Print length
352 Pages
Weight
333 grams
Dimensions
22.60 x 15.20 x 2.00 cms
Product Classification:
History of the AmericasHistory of the Americas
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Explores gradations in the opposition to civil rights by examining how the American south's principal national spokesmen, its United States senators, addressed themselves to the civil rights question and developed a concerted plan of action to thwart legislation: the use of strategic delay.
Few historical events lend themselves to such a sharp delineation between right and wrong as does the civil rights struggle. Consequently, many historical accounts of white resistance to civil rights legislation emphasise the ferocity of the opposition, from the Ole Miss riots to the depredations of Eugene ""Bull"" Conner's Birmingham police force to George Wallace's stand on the schoolhouse steps. While such hostile episodes frequently occurred in the Jim Crow South, civil rights adversaries also employed other, less confrontational but remarkably successful, tactics to deny equal rights to black Americans. In Delaying the Dream, Keith M. Finley explores gradations in the opposition by examining how the region's principal national spokesmen, its United States senators, addressed themselves to the civil rights question and developed a concerted plan of action to thwart legislation: the use of strategic delay.
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