BOOKS

Numan V. Bartley: The Rise of Massive Resistance: Race and Politics in the South During the 1950’s.

Rebecca Brückmann: Massive Resistance and Southern Womanhood: White Women, Class, and Segregation.

Dan T. Carter: The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics.

Joseph Crespino:

• Strom Thurmond’s America: A History.
• In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution.

John Kyle Day: The Southern Manifesto: Massive Resistance and the Fight to Preserve Segregation.

Carolyn Renée Dupont: Mississippi Praying: Southern White Evangelicals and the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1975.

Glenn Feldman (editor): Before Brown: Civil Rights and White Backlash in the Modern South.

Emma J. Folwell: The War on Poverty in Mississippi: From Massive Resistance to New Conservatism.

Matthew D. Lassiter & Andrew B. Lewis (editors): The Moderates’ Dilemma: Massive Resistance to School Desegregation in Virginia.

George Lewis:

• Massive Resistance: The White Response to the Civil Rights Movement.
• The White South and the Red Menace: Segregationists, Anticommunism, and Massive Resistance, 1945-1965.

Angie Maxwell: The Indicted South: Public Criticism, Southern Inferiority, and the Politics of Whiteness.

Elizabeth Gillespie McRae: Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy.

Jason Sokol: There Goes My Everything: White Southerners in the Age of Civil Rights, 1945-1975.

Jason Morgan Ward: Defending White Democracy: The Making of a Segregationist Movement and the Remaking of Racial Politics, 1936-1965.

Clive Webb: Rabble Rousers: The American Far Right in the Civil Rights Era.

Clive Webb (editor): Massive Resistance: Southern Opposition to the Second Reconstruction.

ARTICLES

Sarah Carr: In Southern Towns, ‘Segregation Academies’ Are Still Going Strong: In the 1960s and ’70s, towns across the South created inexpensive private schools to keep white students from having to mix with black. Many remain open, the communities around them as divided as ever.

Dan T. Carter: Legacy of Rage: George Wallace and the Transformation of American Politics.

Patricia Cohen: Interpreting Some Overlooked Stories From the South.

Justin Driver: Supremacies and the Southern Manifesto.

The Equal Justice Initiative:

• Massive Resistance.
• 19 Senators and 82 Representatives Sign Southern Manifesto Opposing Integration of Schools.

Elizabeth Gillespie McRae:

• The Women Behind White Power.
• When White Segregationist Women Hated on Eleanor Roosevelt. They rarely if ever marched or overtly protested, but Southern white women were nevertheless the mass in Massive Resistance. For them, Mrs. Roosevelt was public enemy number one.
• White women overwhelmingly supported Roy Moore. We shouldn’t be surprised. For centuries, white women have supported conservative and white supremacist candidates.

Milestone Documents in American History: The Southern Manifesto.

Jason Sokol:

• White Southerners’ Role in Civil Rights.
• Integration’s Impact on White South.
• From MLK’s death to Trump’s election, racism continues to scar America’s identity.
• They’ll never escape white rage: The world embraced Obama and MLK — their countrymen would not.

The Southern Manifesto: Transcript.

Rebecca Stoner: ‘Segregation’s Constant Gardeners’: How White Women Kept Jim Crow Alive. Elizabeth McRae’s recent book introduces us to good white mothers, PTA members, and newspaper columnists who were also committed white supremacists.

Wikipedia:

• Massive Resistance.
• The Southern Manifesto.