The Politics of White Rights Race, Justice, and Integrating Alabama's Schools / Joseph Bagley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bagley, Joseph, 1981- author.

Series:

Politics and culture in the twentieth-century South.

Politics and culture in the twentieth-century South

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

School integration--Massive resistance movement--Alabama--History--20th century.

School integration.

Segregation in education--Alabama--History--20th century.

Segregation in education.

School integration--Alabama--History--20th century.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 pages).

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019

Place of Publication:

Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2018]

Summary:

"In this narrative account of school desegregation in Alabama, I uncover critical changes in segregationist strategy which allowed whites to engage in a long resistance movement, well after most historians consider 'massive resistance' to have ended. Using a malleable language of 'law and order' in their efforts to thwart desegregation litigation--including the landmark Lee v. Macon County Board of Education case--whites learned to protect what rights and privilege they could by crafting superficially race-neutral legislation designed to withstand court scrutiny. Scholars have explained how whites framed their flight to suburbs and private schools as protecting their right to associate with those of their own choosing, but I reveal here an even more damaging and enduring fight to protect white money. Using the lessons learned in the school desegregation battle, legislators in Alabama in the 1970s erected barriers to white taxation that continue to cripple public education in heavily black areas. And they have, more recently, achieved their longtime goal of funding racially exclusive private schools. In ongoing litigation, politicians who enacted these laws, and white communities which continue to secede from county school systems, insist that their motivations have nothing to do with race. Those who read this book will know better"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

"The NAACP organized

why not you," 1954-1960

"Our most historical moment," 1962-1963

"Now a single shot can do it," 1964-1966

"More than a mere word of promise," 1966-1968

"Depths of disillusionment," 1968-1970

Swann song, 1970-1973

Epilogue. "If ever is going to happen": 1973-2017.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780820354187

082035418X

OCLC:

1065537539