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The South Strikes Back (Paperback)
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The South Strikes Back (Paperback)
Series: Civil Rights in Mississippi Series
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In The South Strikes Back, Hodding Carter III describes the birth
of the white Citizens' Council in the Mississippi Delta and its
spread throughout the South. Carter begins with a brief historical
overview and traces the formation of the Council, its treatment of
African Americans, and its impact on white communities, concluding
with an analysis of the Council's future in Mississippi. Through
economic boycott, social pressure, and political influence, the
Citizens' Council was able to subdue its opponents and dominate the
communities in which it operated. Carter considers trends working
against the Council-the federal government's efforts to improve
voting rights for African Americans, economic growth within African
American communities, and especially the fact that the Citizens'
Council was founded on the defense of segregation's status quo and
dedicated to its preservation. As Carter writes in the final
chapter, "Defense of the status quo, as history has shown often
enough, is an arduous task at best. When, in a democracy such as
ours, it involves the repression of a minority, it becomes an
impossibility.
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