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Genre/Form: | History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Chappell, David L. Inside agitators. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©1994 (OCoLC)622404101 |
Named Person: | Weise |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
David L Chappell |
ISBN: | 0801846854 9780801846854 |
OCLC Number: | 29356791 |
Description: | xxvii, 303 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Foreword / Clayborne Carson -- pt. 1. The Strange Career of Racial Dissent in the South. 1. The "Silent South": The Founding Fathers of Southern White Dissent. 2. From Silence to Futility: Southern White Dissent Gets Organized -- pt. 2. The Strategy of Nonviolence and the Role of White Southerners in the Movement. 3. The Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955-1956. 4. Tallahassee, 1956-1957. 5. Little Rock, 1957-1959. 6. Albany, Georgia, 1961-1962 -- pt. 3. The Art of the Possible: The White Southerner in the National State. 7. The Late 1950s: Saving the Party from Civil Rights. 8. Lyndon Johnson Takes Center Stage -- and Then an Intermission. 9. Policy in High Gear: From the Justice Department to the Acts of 1964 and 1965 -- Epilogue: Interpreting the Movement. |
Responsibility: | David L. Chappell. |
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"David Chappell's new study provides fresh insight into the Civil Rights movement by shifting the analytical focus from the strivings of African-Americans to the crucial and little-understood role of white Southerners. Chappell explodes the convenient myth of the monolithic and homogeneous white South to reveal a society deeply divided over segregation."--Kari Frederickson, 'Southern Historian' "This well-written and fascinating account shows how important white moderates were to the success of the civil rights movement and how black leaders consciously made winning them over to their cause an integral part of their strategy."--John E. Miller, 'The Historian' "Chappell is at his best in describing the dynamics which took place in various southern communities. He also examines the struggles between similar forces on the national scene, as carried on by various southern players within the Democratic Party, the executive office, and the Justice Department."--Michael Honey, 'Peace & Change' "Chappell's is a major piece of historical writing that will be of interest to general readers as well as to more specialized students of the Civil Rights movement in the American South."--Neil Thorburn, 'History' "In the movement, we always said that, like in a washing machine, it was the agitator that got the dirt out. David Chappell's book shows how the inside agitators helped cleanse the society of an extreme injustice. It is an enlightening and important look at a less publicized part of this history."--Andrew Young "A superb study done with subtlety and keen insight, it is absolutely essential for understanding the vital role white Southerners played in the civil rights movement."--C. Vann Woodward, Yale University Read more...


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