Description: The seminal history of the formation and tactics of the Citizens' Council that battled integration and voting rights
Brief description: Stephanie R. Rolph is associate professor of history at Millsaps College. She is author of Resisting Equality: The Citizens' Council, 1954-1989.
Review Quotes: Hodding Carter III dispassionately examines here the growth and structure of the white Citizens' Council. . . . He traces the movement through its role in state politics, . . . its pressures directed at the [Black community], and its effects on the white community. Though demonstrating that the Council . . . has been responsible for whatever success massive resistance toward integration has had in the South, he sees its eventual destruction in the fact that it is essentially a negative movement, dependent on the status quo. A brief, factual, calmly reasoned book.-- "Kirkus"