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The War on Poverty in Mississippi - From Massive Resistance to New Conservatism (Hardcover)
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The War on Poverty in Mississippi - From Massive Resistance to New Conservatism (Hardcover)
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President Lyndon B. Johnson's war on poverty instigated a ferocious
backlash in Mississippi. Federally funded programs - the embodiment
of 1960s liberalism - directly clashed with Mississippi's closed
society. From 1965 to 1973, opposing forces transformed the state.
In this state-level history of the war on poverty, Emma J. Folwell
traces the attempts of white and black Mississippians to address
the state's dire economic circumstances through antipoverty
programs. At times, the war on poverty became a powerful tool for
black empowerment. But more often, antipoverty programs served as a
potent catalyst of white resistance to black advancement. After the
momentous events of 1964, both black activism and white opposition
to black empowerment evolved due to these federal efforts. White
Mississippians deployed massive resistance in part to stifle any
black economic empowerment, twisting antipoverty programs into
tools to marginalize black political power. Folwell uncovers how
the grassroots war against the war on poverty laid the foundation
for the fight against 1960s liberalism, as Mississippi became a
national model for stonewalling social change. As Folwell
indicates, many white Mississippians hardwired elements of massive
resistance into the political, economic, and social structure.
Meanwhile, they abandoned the Democratic Party and honed the
state's Republican Party, spurred by a new conservatism.
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