If there was a 'long civil rights movement,'" Jason Morgan Ward contends, "there was also a long
segregationist movement" (2).
activists and white
segregationists on the explicitly cultural terrains
For example, the historian John Cell argues persuasively that the principal function of
segregationist ideology in the South was to soften class conflicts among whites, thus subordinating internal conflicts to the unifying concept of race.
Golden, the gadfly author of the Carolina Israelite newspaper, which circulated weekly mostly among southern Jews, developed a series of "Golden Plans" to show the absurdity of
segregationist positions.
By the 1980s, most former
segregationists and southern conservatives became Republicans, and they spearheaded efforts to roll back civil rights legislation, dismantle welfare programs, abolish affirmative action, and promote "law and order" by expanding the prison-industrial complex.
Throughout the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, biblical
segregationists provided the most fervent religious opposition to the proponents of racial equality and integration.
After 16 years in the House, he succeeded arch
segregationist John Stennis in the U.
The
segregationists had continued to heighten tension prior to September 3, 1957; after their experience in Hoxie, however, they had avoided a direct clash with federal authority.
Why did
segregationists settle for these policies rather than continue to vote Democratic?
In 1961, Jones was appointed to the City Human Rights Commission for his success in building a multi-racial congregation despite unwelcome attention from
segregationists.
But no one said they were right, that America would be a better place today if the
segregationists had won the political battles against integrationists like Martin Luther King Jr.
That Senate Democrats might actually apply standards of ethics and judicial temperament--Pickering consorted with
segregationists and challenged the Voting Rights Act--drew cries of foul from Republicans.
