Description: Defending White Democracy: The Making of a Segregationist Movement and the Remaking of Racial Politics, 1936-1965
Brief description: Jason Morgan Ward is assistant professor of history at Mississippi State University.
Review Quotes: "This ambitious book will appeal to both specialists and general readers. . . . Ward's unique contribution is his outstanding synthesis of . . . earlier studies, which, combined with his own original research and fresh interpretations, makes Defending White Democracy now the single best source for understanding the white South's long resistance to civil rights." -- Journal of Southern History