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Resisting Equality - The Citizens' Council, 1954-1989 (Hardcover)
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Resisting Equality - The Citizens' Council, 1954-1989 (Hardcover)
Series: Making the Modern South
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In Resisting Equality Stephanie R. Rolph examines the history of
the Citizens' Council, an organisation committed to coordinating
opposition to desegregation and black voting rights. In the first
comprehensive study of this racist group, Rolph follows the
Citizens' Council from its establishment in the Mississippi Delta,
through its expansion into other areas of the country and its
success in incorporating elements of its agenda into national
politics, to its formal dissolution in 1989. Founded in 1954, two
months after the Brown v. Board of Education decision by the U.S.
Supreme Court, the Council spread rapidly in its home state of
Mississippi. Initially, the organisation relied on local chapters
to monitor signs of black activism and take action to suppress that
activism through economic and sometimes violent means. As the
decade came to a close, however, the Council's influence expanded
into Mississippi's political institutions, silencing white
moderates and facilitating a wave of terror that severely
obstructed black Mississippians' participation in the civil rights
movement. As the Citizens' Council reached the peak of its power in
Mississippi, its ambitions extended beyond the South. Alliances
with like-minded organisations across the country supplemented
waning influence at home, and the Council movement found itself in
league with the earliest sparks of conservative ascension,
cultivating consistent messages of grievance against minority
groups and urging the necessity of white unity. Much more than a
local arm of white terror, the Council's work intersected with
anticommunism, conservative ideology, grassroots activism, and
Radical Right organisations that facilitated its journey from the
margins into mainstream politics. Perhaps most crucially, Rolph
examines the extent to which the organisation survived the
successes of the civil rights movement and found continued
relevance even after the Council's campaign to preserve
state-sanctioned forms of white supremacy ended in defeat. Using
the Council's own materials, papers from its political allies, oral
histories, and newspaper accounts, Resisting Equality illuminates
the motives and mechanisms of this destructive group.
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