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This in-depth account of the rise
and decline of the Citizens' Councils of America details the organization's
role in the massive resistance to school desegregation in the South following
the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision. Included are a new preface and
updated bibliography.
"A tour de force of research and
narration. . . in highly readable style. [McMillen] . . . seems to have read
everything the historical record has to offer on the subject and to have known
exactly what to make of it. . . Himself squarely on the side of the future,
he is sensitive to the anguish that prompted the hysteria of the misguided racist. . . .
By any test, a masterful study." -- Journal of Southern History
"Takes seriously the people who
made the movement, when ridicule and caricature would have been an easier analytical
technique. Solidly researched and well written. . . an intriguing story." --
Augustus M. Burns, Social Studies

The Citizens' Council: Organized Resistance to the Second Reconstruction, 1954-64

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This in-depth account of the rise and decline of the Citizens' Councils of America details the organization's role in the... Read more

    Publisher: University of Illinois Press
    Publication Date: 01/10/1994
    ISBN13: 9780252064418, 978-0252064418
    ISBN10: 0252064410

    Number of Pages: 440

    Non Fiction , History

    Description

    This in-depth account of the rise
    and decline of the Citizens' Councils of America details the organization's
    role in the massive resistance to school desegregation in the South following
    the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision. Included are a new preface and
    updated bibliography.
    "A tour de force of research and
    narration. . . in highly readable style. [McMillen] . . . seems to have read
    everything the historical record has to offer on the subject and to have known
    exactly what to make of it. . . Himself squarely on the side of the future,
    he is sensitive to the anguish that prompted the hysteria of the misguided racist. . . .
    By any test, a masterful study." -- Journal of Southern History
    "Takes seriously the people who
    made the movement, when ridicule and caricature would have been an easier analytical
    technique. Solidly researched and well written. . . an intriguing story." --
    Augustus M. Burns, Social Studies

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