Massive Resistance and Media Suppression : the Segregationist Response to Dissent During the Civil Rights Movement / David J. Wallace.

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.

"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.

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