Delaying the Dream : Southern Senators and the Fight Against Civil Rights, 1938-1965

Name: Delaying the Dream
Brand: Louisiana State University Press
SKU: 9780807137116
Price: 6300 KES
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ISBN: 9780807137116

by Keith M. Finley

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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 Americas History 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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