Rabble Rousers - The American Far Right in the Civil Rights Era

Informationen zum Autor Clive Webb is a reader in North American history at the University of Sussex. He is the author of "Fight against Fear: Southern Jews and Black Civil Rights," coauthor of "Race in the American South: From Slavery to Civil Rights," and editor of "Massive Resistance: Southern Opposition to the Second Reconstruction." His forthcoming book (coauthored with William D. Carrigan) is "Forgotten Dead: Mob Violence against Mexicans in the United States, 1848 to 1928." Klappentext The decade following the 1954 Brown versus Board of Education decision saw white southerners mobilize in massive resistance to racial integration. This title turns traditional top-down models of massive resistance on their head by telling the story of five far-right activists who led grassroots rebellions. Zusammenfassung Rabble Rousers turns traditional top-down models of massive resistance on their head by telling the story of five far-right activists—Bryant Bowles, John Kasper, Rear Admiral John Crommelin, Major General Edwin Walker, and J. B. Stoner—who led grassroots rebellions.

Product details

• Authors: Clive Webb
• Assisted by: Bryant Simon (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.06.2010
• EAN: 9780820335773
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-3577-3
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Politics and Culture in the Tw; Politics and Culture in the Tw
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas