Table of Contents:
  • Why massive resistance? / Michal J. Klarman
  • Brown and backlash / Tony Badger
  • A political coup d'état? how the enemies of Earl Long overwhelmed racial moderation in Louisiana / Adam Fairclough
  • "Massive resistance and minimum compliance": the origins of the 1957 Little Rock school crisis and the failure of school desegregation in the South / John A. Kirk
  • The fight for "freedom of association": segregationalist rights and resistance in Atlanta / Kevin M. Kruse
  • White South, red nation: massive resistance and the Cold War / George Lewis
  • Disunity and religious institutions in the white South / David L. Chappell
  • The theology of massive resistance: sex, segregation, and the sacred after Brown / Jane Dailey
  • White womanhood, white supremacy, and the rise of massive resistance / Elizabeth Gillespie McRae
  • Massive resistance, violence, and Southern social relations: the Little Rock, Arkansas, school integration crisis, 1954-1960 / Karen S. Anderson.