Inside agitators : white southerners in the Civil Rights Movement / David L. Chappell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chappell, David L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil rights workers--Southern States--History--20th century.

Civil rights workers.

Civil rights movements--Southern States--History--20th century.

Civil rights movements.

History.

Southern States.

African Americans--Civil rights.

African Americans.

Southern States--Race relations.

Race relations.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 303 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.

Summary:

"With keen insight, Chappell argues that not only were white southerners far from solid in their commitment to segregation during the civil rights era, but that the movement actively exploited and widened their divisions to achieve both local victories and federal intervention." -- Mark Newman, Journal of American Studies -- "One of the many virtues of David Chappell's fascinating study is that he does not romanticize white southerners who were sympathetic toward the civil rights movement. Rather than depicting them simply as courageous dissenters, he shows that their motives for supporting civil rights reform were varied and complex -- a mixture of altruism, pragmatism, paternalism, guilt, and numerous other idiosyncratic sentiments." -- Clayborne Carson, Editor of the Papers of Martin Luther King Jr. "Chappell is to be commended for struggling with hard questions about historical causation." -- Robert J. Norrell, Journal of American History

Contents:

1: The strange career of racial dissent in the South

The "silent South": the founding Fathers of Southern white dissent

From silence to futility: Southern white dissent gets organized

2: The strategy of nonviolence and the role of white Southerns in the movement

The Montgomery bus boycott, 1955-1956

Tallahassee, 1956-1957

Little Rock, 1957-1959

Albany, Georgia, 1961-1962

3: The art of the possible: the white Southerner in the national state

The late 1950s: saving the party from civil rights

Lyndon Johnson takes center stage

and then an intermission

Policy in high gear: from the Justice Department to the Acts of 1964 and 1965

Interpreting the movement.

Notes:

Johns Hopkins Paperbacks edition.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [277]-293) and index.

Local Notes:

Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon Hackney.

Storage copy has signature of Sheldon Hackney in front.

Storage copy has MS. note by Sheldon Hackney at end.

ISBN:

080185234X

9780801852343

OCLC:

35082335