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The origins of massive resistance -- 'Massive resistance' : meanings and metaphors -- The impact of histories -- The concomitant conversations of resistance -- Patterns of segregation, traditions of supremacy -- The selective rhetoric of resistance -- The timing and trajectory of 'massive' resistance -- Brown and its aftermath, 1954-1956 -- Political responses to Brown : diffidence and indecision -- Mixed messages from the grassroots : referendums in Louisiana and Georgia -- An alternative model : Hoxie, Arkansas -- The Citizens' Councils : aims, organization and propaganda tactics -- The case of Emmett Till -- The southern legislative response to Brown : three case studies -- North Carolina and the progressive facade -- Virginia and the role of personal politics -- Louisiana : 'neo-populism' versus 'neo-Bourbonism' -- Resisters in search of homogeneity : interposition and the Southern Manifesto -- Resistance rampant, 1956-1960 -- Massive resistance and the Cold War -- Massive resistance and religion -- Massive resistance in Alabama : setback and success -- Grassroots militancy : Mansfield, Sturgis, Clay and Clinton -- The 1957 Little Rock schools crisis -- Selecting the enemies of resistance : the campaign against the NAACP -- The day-to-day terror of grassroots resistance -- The increasing sophistication of resistance propaganda -- Responsive resistance, c. 1960-1965 -- The 1960 New Orleans school crisis -- The continuing refinement of the resistance canon -- Massive resistance and the North -- Losing the initiative : resistance, reaction and the sit-ins -- Open violence on a national stage : massive resistance meets the Freedom Rides -- James Meredith and massive resistance at Ole Miss -- George C. Wallace and the schoolhouse door : the Appomattox of segregation? -- Resisting non-violent direct action : Laurie Pritchett, Bull Connor and Jim Clark -- The confederate chameleon -- Resistance moves to Washington : opposition to the 1964 Civil Rights Act -- An end to massive resistance? -- A 'second generation of subterfuges' -- The politics of southern resistance on a national stage : George C. Wallace -- State-level resisters and the quest for a northern audience -- From massive resistance to individual rights -- The dissolution of massive resistance. |
