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Author Wallace, David J., 1981- author

Title Massive Resistance and Media Suppression : the Segregationist Response to Dissent During the Civil Rights Movement / David J. Wallace
Published El Paso : LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (214 pages)
Series Law and society, recent scholarship
Law and society (New York, N.Y.)
Contents Introduction -- The rise of massive resistance and the suppression of dissent -- The way we see it -- The most southern place on earth -- Beyond the Mississippi mainstream -- Those south-hating propagandists -- The decline of massive resistance
Summary "Wallace explores the role and methods of media suppression in the South during the civil rights movement and the southern 'massive resistance' to integration. Segregationists understood the importance of public opinion to defending their social system, and, as a result, desperately fought to influence how the civil rights movement and segregation were defined for the nation. However, when certain national news coverage and the voices of a minority of southern journalists challenged the growing massive resistance extremism and the arguments used to preserve the 'southern way of life, ' segregationists responded with organized attempts to silence criticism, dissent and public debate within the press"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Civil rights movements -- Press coverage -- United States -- History -- 20th century
African Americans -- Press coverage -- History -- 20th century
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century
Segregation -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
African Americans -- Civil rights
African Americans -- Press coverage
Race relations
Race relations -- Press coverage
Segregation
SUBJECT United States -- Race relations -- Press coverage -- History -- 20th century
Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
Subject Southern States
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2013014122
ISBN 9781593327323
1593327323