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The author examines race relations in a Deep South state, documenting entrenched segregation, widespread resistance to school desegregation, and the social and political mechanisms that sustain white supremacy. Drawing on public statements, newspaper editorials, and institutional behavior, the work traces how leaders, organizations, and popular opinion construct legal and rhetorical defenses of segregation while African Americans press orderly claims for equal rights. It analyzes historical causes, explores tensions between conscience and coercion, and argues that gradual reform, courageous leadership, and public candor are necessary for resolving the crisis.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

For the past eleven years Professor Howard H. Quint has been a member of the faculty of the University of South Carolina where he specialized in the teaching of American constitutional and intellectual history. Because he believed that this book should be published but did not wish to cause embarrassment to the University of South Carolina, a state-supported institution, he resigned his position prior to publication.

Professor Quint was graduated from Yale University in 1940 and was awarded an M.A. degree from Stanford University and a Ph.D. degree from The Johns Hopkins University. During World War II he was associated with the Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service as a propaganda analyst and with the Office of Strategic Services as a political and economic analyst. In 1954 he won second place in an American Historical Association competition for the John H. Dunning Prize. In 1956 he was Smith-Mundt lecturer in United States history at the National University of Mexico.

Copyright, 1958, by Public Affairs Press
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Printed in the United States of America
Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 58-11889