Fetch Defending White Democracy: The Making Of A Segregationist Movement And The Remaking Of Racial Politics, 1936-1965 Constructed By Jason Morgan Ward Accessible In Publication

the Supreme Court ruled school segregation unconstitutional in, 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 mobilizing against civil rights some years earlier, in the era before World War II, when the New Deal politics of the mids threatened the monopoly on power that whites held in the South.


As Ward shows, years before "segregationist" became a badge of honor for civil rights opponents, many white southerners resisted racial change at every turnlaunching 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 thes ands, 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.
Jason Morgan Ward is Associate Professor of History at Mississippi State University, He is the author of Defending White Democracy: The Making of a Segregationist Movement and the Remaking of Racial Politics,, .