Brown and Backlash

Tony Badger

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Brown and Backlash

Tony Badger

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Abstract

This chapter asserts that conservative resistance to racial change was already entrenched before 1954. It claims that moderate southern politicians were too fearful of an electoral backlash to formulate a strategy to promote gradual racial reform once the Supreme Court had issued its ruling. It implies that massive resistance only became inevitable because of the timidity and fatalism of liberal leaders.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Massive Resistance: Southern Opposition to the Second Reconstruction
Editors	Clive Webb
Place of Publication	Oxford
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Pages	39-55
Number of pages	264
ISBN (Print)	9780195177862
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195177862.003.0003
Publication status	Published - 2005

Keywords

Brown
southern politicians
electoral backlash
racial reform
Supreme Court

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