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100 1 $aFairclough, Adam.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85384299
245 10 $aRace and democracy :$bthe civil rights struggle in Louisiana, 1915-1972 /$cAdam Fairclough.
260 $aAthens :$bUniversity of Georgia Press,$c[1995], ©1995.
263 $a9503
300 $axxix, 610 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations, map ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $aRace and Democracy is the first history of the civil rights movement in Louisiana.
520 8 $aCentral to Race and Democracy is Fairclough's argument that historians and the media, in their fascination with the action-oriented, youth-dominated 1960s, do not appreciate the full variety, depth, and durability of black protest. Moreover, by according higher visibility to the most "glamorous" aspects of the movement, they have neglected the crucial role of the NAACP.
520 8 $aThe dominant civil rights organization in the deep south before the mid-1950s, the NAACP had already amassed an impressive record of victories through litigation and fieldwork before SCLC, CORE, and SNCC arrived on the scene. In reassessing the role of the NAACP, Race and Democracy highlights the contributions of black lawyer Alexander Pierre Tureaud and the many extraordinarily brave men and women for whom the struggle for civil rights was a lifetime commitment.
520 8 $a.
520 8 $aRace and Democracy includes careful analyses of white responses to the civil rights movement as expressed through political factions, trade unions, business lobbies, the Catholic Church, White Citizens Councils, and the Ku Klux Klan. As well as examining the leadership of three powerful governors - Huey Long, Earl Long, and John McKeithen - it describes the roles of such key individuals as federal judge Skelly Wright, Catholic archbishop Joseph Rummel, and racist politico Leander H. Perez.
520 8 $aThroughout, Fairclough places the Louisiana movement in the context of such national trends and events as war, depression, McCarthyism, Black Power, and federal intervention. He concludes by surveying present-day Louisiana and assessing the political significance of David Duke.
650 0 $aCivil rights movements$zLouisiana$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$xCivil rights$zLouisiana.
651 0 $aLouisiana$xRace relations.
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