"Federal Law and Southern Order," first published in 1987, examines
the factors behind the federal government's long delay in
responding to racial violence during the 1950s and 1960s. The book
also reveals that it was apprehension of a militant minority of
white racists that ultimately spurred acquiescent state and local
officials in the South to protect blacks and others involved in
civil rights activities. By tracing patterns of violent racial
crimes and probing the federal government's persistent failure to
punish those who committed the crimes, Michal R. Belknap tells how
and why judges, presidents, members of Congress, and even Justice
Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation officials accepted
the South's insistence that federalism precluded any national
interference in southern law enforcement. Lulled into complacency
by the soothing rationalization of federalism, Washington for too
long remained a bystander while the Ku Klux Klan and others used
violence to sabotage the civil rights movement, Belknap
demonstrates.
In the foreword to this paperback edition, Belknap examines how
other scholars, in works published after "Federal Law and Southern
Order," have treated issues related to federal efforts to curb
racial violence. He also explores how incidents of racial violence
since the 1960s have been addressed by the state legal systems of
the South and discusses the significance for the contemporary South
of congressional legislation enacted during the 1960s to suppress
racially motivated murders, beatings, and intimidation.
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