After the Supreme Court ruled school segregation unconstitutional
in 1954, southern white backlash seemed to explode overnight.
Journalists profiled the rise of a segregationist movement
committed to preserving the ""southern way of life"" through a
campaign of massive resistance. In Defending White Democracy, Jason
Morgan Ward reconsiders the origins of this white resistance,
arguing that southern conservatives began mobilising against civil
rights some years earlier, in the era before World War II, when the
New Deal politics of the mid-1930s threatened the monopoly on power
that whites held in the South. As Ward shows, years before
""segregationist"" became a badge of honour for civil rights
opponents, many white southerners resisted racial change at every
turn--launching a preemptive campaign aimed at preserving a social
order that they saw as under siege. By the time of the Brown
decision, segregationists had amassed an arsenal of tested tactics
and arguments to deploy against the civil rights movement in the
coming battles. Connecting the racial controversies of the New Deal
era to the more familiar confrontations of the 1950s and 1960s,
Ward uncovers a parallel history of segregationist opposition that
mirrors the new focus on the long civil rights movement and raises
troubling questions about the enduring influence of segregation's
defenders.
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