Federal Law and Southern Order: Racial Violence and Constitutional Conflict in the Post-Brown South (Studies in the Legal History of the South)

by Michal R . Belknap (Author)

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  1995

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  This work examines the factors behind the Federal government's long delay in responding to racial violence during the 1950s and 1960s. It reveals that it was the apprehension of a militant minority of white racists that ultimately spured state and local officials to protect blacks.