ISBN : 9780190271718
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 continues to mobilize local communities and survive legislative defeat.
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Segregation's Constant Gardeners
Part I: Massive Support for Segregation, 1920-1942
Ch. 1 The Color Line in Virginia: The Home Grown Production of White Supremacy
Ch. 2 Citizenship Education for a Segregated Nation
Ch. 3 Campaigning for a Jim Crow South
Ch. 4 Jim Crow Storytelling
Part II: Massive Resistance to the Black Freedom Struggle
Ch. 5 Partisan Betrayals: A Bad Woman, Weak White Men, and the End of a Party
Ch. 6 Jim Crow's International Enemies and Nationwide Allies
Ch. 7 Threats Within: Black Southerners, 1954-1956
Ch. 8 White Women, White Youth, and the Hope of the Nation
Conclusion: The New National Face of Segregation: Boston Women Against Busing
Notes
Bibliography
Index