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"In The South Strikes Back, Hodding Carter III describes the birth of the white Citizens' Council in the Mississippi Delta and its spread throughout the South. Carter begins with a brief historical overview and traces the formation of the Council, its treatment of African Americans, and it...

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Main Author: Carter, Hodding (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2022]
Series:Civil rights in Mississippi.
Subjects:
Association of Citizens' Councils of Mississippi.
Citizens' Councils of America.
African Americans > Segregation.
African Americans > Mississippi.
Noirs américains > Ségrégation.
Noirs américains > Mississippi.
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination.
African Americans.
Mississippi.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to the new edition / Stephanie R. Rolph
  • Background for resistance
  • The Councils form
  • The Citizens' Councils and Mississippi politics (1955-58)
  • The Citizens' Councils and the negro
  • The Citizens' Councils and conformity in the white community
  • The future of the Citizens' Councils in Mississippi.