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The Brown Decision, Jim Crow, and Southern Identity (Paperback)
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The Brown Decision, Jim Crow, and Southern Identity (Paperback)
Series: Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures Series
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The 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling was a watershed event
in the fight against racial segregation in the United States. The
recent fiftieth anniversary of Brown prompted a surge of tributes:
books, television and radio specials, conferences, and speeches. At
the same time, says James C. Cobb, it revealed a growing trend of
dismissiveness and negativity toward Brown and other
accomplishments of the civil rights movement. Writing as both a
lauded historian and a white southerner from the last generation to
grow up under southern apartheid, Cobb responds to what he sees as
distortions of Brown's legacy and their implied disservice to those
whom it inspired and empowered.Cobb begins by looking at how our
historical understanding of segregation has evolved since the Brown
decision. In particular, he targets the tenacious misconception
that racial discrimination was at odds with economic
modernization-and so would have faded out, on its own, under market
pressures. He then looks at the argument that Brown energized white
resistance more than it fomented civil rights progress. This
position overstates the pace and extent of racial change in the
South prior to Brown, Cobb says, while it understates Brown's role
in catalyzing and legitimizing subsequent black protest. Finally,
Cobb suggests that the Brown decree and the civil rights movement
accomplished not only more than certain critics have acknowledged
but also more than the hard statistics of black progress can
reveal. The destruction of Jim Crow, with its "denial of
belonging," allowed African Americans to embrace their identity as
southerners in ways that freed them to explore links between their
southernness and their blackness. This is an important and timely
reminder of "what the Brown court and the activists who took the
spirit of its ruling into the streets were up against, both
historically and contemporaneously.
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