Black Freedom, White Resistance, And Red Menace: Civil Rights And Anticommunism In The Jim Crow South (making The Modern South)

Synopsis

Yasuhiro Katagiri Offers The First Scholarly Work To Illuminate An Important But Largely Unstudied Aspect Of Civil Rights History -- The Collaborative And Mutually Beneficial Relationship Between Professional Anti-communists In The North And Segregationist Politicians In The South.southern White Leadership Framed Black Southerners' Crusades For Social Justice And Human Dignity As A Foreign Scheme Directed By Nefarious Outside Agitators, Race-mixers, And, Worse, Outright Subversives And Card-carrying Communists.