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- Author: Keith M Finley
- Publisher: LSU Press
- ISBN-10: 0807137111
- ISBN-13: 9780807137116
- Format: 15.2 x 22.6 x 2 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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Few historical events lend themselves to such a sharp delineation between right and wrong as does the civil rights struggle. Consequently, many historical accounts of white resistance to civil rights legislation emphasize the ferocity of the opposition, from the Ole Miss riots to the depredations of Eugene "Bull" Conner's Birmingham police force to George Wallace's stand on the schoolhouse steps. While such hostile episodes frequently occurred in the Jim Crow South, civil rights adversaries also employed other, less confrontational but remarkably successful, tactics to deny equal rights to black Americans. In Delaying the Dream, Keith M. Finley explores gradations in the opposition by examining how the region's principal national spokesmen--its United States senators--addressed themselves to the civil rights question and developed a concerted plan of action to thwart legislation: the use of strategic delay.
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- Author: Keith M Finley
- Publisher: LSU Press
- ISBN-10: 0807137111
- ISBN-13: 9780807137116
- Format: 15.2 x 22.6 x 2 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
Few historical events lend themselves to such a sharp delineation between right and wrong as does the civil rights struggle. Consequently, many historical accounts of white resistance to civil rights legislation emphasize the ferocity of the opposition, from the Ole Miss riots to the depredations of Eugene "Bull" Conner's Birmingham police force to George Wallace's stand on the schoolhouse steps. While such hostile episodes frequently occurred in the Jim Crow South, civil rights adversaries also employed other, less confrontational but remarkably successful, tactics to deny equal rights to black Americans. In Delaying the Dream, Keith M. Finley explores gradations in the opposition by examining how the region's principal national spokesmen--its United States senators--addressed themselves to the civil rights question and developed a concerted plan of action to thwart legislation: the use of strategic delay.
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