Mothers of Massive Resistance : White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy

Mothers of Massive Resistance : White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy / Elizabeth Gillespie McRae.

Mothers of Massive Resistance tells the story of how white women shaped racial segregation in the South and postwar conservatism across the nation. Through their work in social welfare, public education, partisan politics, and culture, they created a massive resistance that spanned five decades, and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McRae, Elizabeth Gillespie
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Subjects:
1900-1999
White supremacy movements > United States > History > 20th century.
Women, White > Political activity > United States > History.
Women, White > United States > Attitudes > History > 20th century.
Women, White > United States > Social life and customs > History > 20th century.
Segregation > United States > History > 20th century.
Race discrimination > United States > History > 20th century.
Racism > United States > History > 20th century.
Race discrimination
Race relations
Racism
Segregation
White supremacy movements
United States > Race relations > History > 20th century.
United States
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Segregation's constant gardeners
  • Massive support for segregation, 1920-1942
  • The color line in Virginia: the home grown production of white supremacy
  • Citizenship education for a segregated nation
  • Campaigning for a Jim Crow south
  • Jim Crow storytelling
  • Massive resistance to the black freedom struggle
  • Partisan betrayals: a bad woman, weak white men, and the end of a party
  • Jim Crow's international enemies and nationwide allies
  • Threats within: black southerners, 1954-1956
  • White women, white youth, and the hope of the nation
  • Conclusion: the new national face of segregation: Boston women against busing.

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