Black Freedom, White Resistance, and Red Menace: Civil Rights and Anticommunism in the Jim Crow South

by Yasuhiro Katagiri

Book Overview

In Black Freedom, White Resistance, and Red Menace, Yasuhiro Katagiri offers the first scholarly work to illuminate an important but largely unstudied aspect of U.S. civil rights history -- the collaborative and mutually beneficial relationship between professional anti-Communists in the North and segregationist politicians in the South.
In 1954, the Supreme Court outlawed racial segregation in public schools with the Brown v. Board of Education...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807153133
• ISBN13: 9780807153130
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.0"