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Kari Frederickson, The Dixiecrat Revolt and the End of the Solid South

(2001), looks at the defection of southern Democrats after Truman endorsed

civil rights initiatives.

Emmett Till’s grisly murder is examined in William Bradford Huie, Wolf

Whistle(1959), Stephen Whitfield, A Death in the Delta (1988), and

Christopher Metress, The Lynching of Emmett Till(2002).

The international dimension of the civil rights movement is discussed

in Thomas Borstelmann, The Cold War and the Color Line(2001), Mary

Dudziak, Cold War, Civil Rights (2000), and Azza Salama Layton,

International Politics and Civil Rights Policies in the United States(2000).

Education

In the field of school desegregation, one must begin with Richard Kluger’s

magisterial work, Simple Justice(1975). Mark Tushnet, The NAACP’s Legal

Strategy Against Segregated Education(1987), is a study before Brown.

Charles Houston, the brains behind the NAACP’s school desegregation

strategy, is the subject of Genna McNeil’s Groundwork(1983). Howard Ball,

A Defiant Life(1998), is a fine biography of Houston’s protégé, Thurgood

Marshall. Mark Tushnet, Making Civil Rights Law(1994), and Jack Greenberg,

Crusaders in the Courts(1994), recount the NAACP’s exhaustive crusade

against Jim Crow. Psychologist Kenneth Clark reports on his findings in

Prejudice and Your Child(1955). Ed Cray, Chief Justice(1997), studies the

pivotal leadership of Earl Warren. Examinations of Brown’s debatable effects

on public education include Gary Orfield, Dismantling Desegregation

(1996), and Peter Irons, Jim Crow’s Children(2002).

Segregation is defended in Theodore Bilbo, Take Your Choice(1947), Tom

Brady, Black Monday (1955), Herman Talmadge, You and Segregation

(1955), and James J. Kilpatrick, The Southern Case for School Segregation

(1962). I.A. Newby, Challenge to the Court(1967), notes that segregation-

ists used scientific racism to refute Brown. Liberal rejoinders are Harry

Ashmore’s Epitaph for Dixie(1958), and John Martin, The Deep South Says

‘Never’ (1957).

Virginia’s futile attempts to block school desegregation are chronicled in

James Ely, Jr., The Crisis of Conservative Virginia(1976), Francis Wilhoit,

The Politics of Massive Resistance(1973), Matthew Lassiter and Andrew

Lewis, The Moderates’ Dilemma(1998), Benjamin Muse, Virginia’s Massive

Resistance(1961), Bob Smith, They Closed Their Schools(1965), and

Robert Pratt’s The Color of Their Skin(1992).

The political and social impact of the Browndecision is examined by

James Patterson, Brown v. Board of Education(2001), Numan Bartley, The

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