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Author Bagley, Joseph, 1981- author.

Title The politics of white rights : race, justice, and integrating Alabama's schools / Joseph Bagley
Published Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Politics and culture in the twentieth-century South
Politics and culture in the twentieth-century South.
Contents "The NAACP organized -- why not you," 1954-1960 -- "Our most historical moment," 1962-1963 -- "Now a single shot can do it," 1964-1966 -- "More than a mere word of promise," 1966-1968 -- "Depths of disillusionment," 1968-1970 -- Swann song, 1970-1973 -- Epilogue. "If ever is going to happen": 1973-2017
Summary "In this narrative account of school desegregation in Alabama, I uncover critical changes in segregationist strategy which allowed whites to engage in a long resistance movement, well after most historians consider 'massive resistance' to have ended. Using a malleable language of 'law and order' in their efforts to thwart desegregation litigation--including the landmark Lee v. Macon County Board of Education case--whites learned to protect what rights and privilege they could by crafting superficially race-neutral legislation designed to withstand court scrutiny. Scholars have explained how whites framed their flight to suburbs and private schools as protecting their right to associate with those of their own choosing, but I reveal here an even more damaging and enduring fight to protect white money. Using the lessons learned in the school desegregation battle, legislators in Alabama in the 1970s erected barriers to white taxation that continue to cripple public education in heavily black areas. And they have, more recently, achieved their longtime goal of funding racially exclusive private schools. In ongoing litigation, politicians who enacted these laws, and white communities which continue to secede from county school systems, insist that their motivations have nothing to do with race. Those who read this book will know better"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 09, 2019)
Subject School integration -- Alabama -- History -- 20th century
Segregation in education -- Alabama -- History -- 20th century
School integration -- Massive resistance movement -- Alabama -- History -- 20th century
EDUCATION -- Administration -- General.
EDUCATION -- Educational Policy & Reform -- General.
HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
School integration
School integration -- Massive resistance movement
Segregation in education
Alabama
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780820354187
082035418X