TY - BOOK AU - Wallace,David J. TI - Massive Resistance and Media Suppression: the Segregationist Response to Dissent During the Civil Rights Movement T2 - Law and society, recent scholarship SN - 9781593327323 AV - E185.61 .W18 2013eb U1 - 323.1196/0730750904 23 PY - 2013/// CY - El Paso PB - LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC KW - Civil rights movements KW - Press coverage KW - United States KW - History KW - 20th century KW - African Americans KW - Civil rights KW - Segregation KW - Southern States KW - Mouvements des droits de l'homme KW - Couverture de presse KW - États-Unis KW - Histoire KW - 20e siècle KW - Noirs américains KW - Droits KW - Ségrégation KW - États-Unis (Sud) KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE KW - Political Freedom & Security KW - Civil Rights KW - bisacsh KW - Human Rights KW - fast KW - Race relations KW - Relations raciales KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- The rise of massive resistance and the suppression of dissent -- The way we see it -- The most southern place on earth -- Beyond the Mississippi mainstream -- Those south-hating propagandists -- The decline of massive resistance N2 - "Wallace explores the role and methods of media suppression in the South during the civil rights movement and the southern 'massive resistance' to integration. Segregationists understood the importance of public opinion to defending their social system, and, as a result, desperately fought to influence how the civil rights movement and segregation were defined for the nation. However, when certain national news coverage and the voices of a minority of southern journalists challenged the growing massive resistance extremism and the arguments used to preserve the 'southern way of life, ' segregationists responded with organized attempts to silence criticism, dissent and public debate within the press"--Provided by publisher UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=608917 ER -