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The failure of massive resistance: the law and social change in Manatee County, Florida.

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Date Issued:
1972
Abstract/Description:
Historical examination of forces and events leading to the overturn of segregation in Florida, and especially in Manatee County.
Title: The failure of massive resistance: the law and social change in Manatee County, Florida.
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Name(s): Rapp, Raymond.
PALMM (Project)
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Bibliography
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1972?
Date Issued: 1972
Date Issued: 1972
Physical Form: electronic resource
Extent: 251 leaves : ill. 29 cm.
Language(s): eng
Abstract/Description: Historical examination of forces and events leading to the overturn of segregation in Florida, and especially in Manatee County.
Table of Contents: Introduction -- I. Conflicting judicial decisions, Florida's reaction to the Brown decree -- II. Racism, a roadblock to economic progress -- III. Florida outlaws the Ku Klux Klan -- IV. A changing social order -- V. The moral crusade against institutionalized white supremacy -- VI. Federal mandates to change -- VII. Politics of school desegregation -- VIII. The Republican capitulation to white supremacy -- IX. An end to the era of tokenism -- X. Conflicting compliance guidelines -- XI. The impact of the Holmes decision -- XII. The campaign against busing -- XIII. A dramatic confrontation, the state of Florida v. the United States -- XIV. The aftermath and some afterthoughts -- Appendices -- Bibliography.
Target Audience: College students and adults
Target Audience: adult
Identifier: AAA1064QF00005/08/200003/06/200818266BfamIi D0QF (FCLAZ), FHP C SF 2000-05-08 (DNX), FCLA url 20000522 (snx), FIPS12081 (snx), SF00000013 (IID), 2789236 (digitool), usf:68481 (fedora)
Note(s): by Raymond Rapp.
Thesis (M.A.)--University of South Florida, 1972.
Bibliography: leaves 243-251.
Electronic reproduction. [Florida] : State University System of Florida, PALMM Project, 2000. (Florida heritage collection) Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: Internet connectivity; Web browser software; Adobe Acrobat Reader to view and print PDF files. Electronically reproduced by the University of South Florida from a serial held in the Main Library at the University of South Florida, Tampa.
Subject(s): Segregation in education -- Florida -- Manatee County
Manatee County (Fla.) -- Social conditions
Manatee -- 12081
African Americans
Civil rights
Race relations
Contemporary Florida, 1960-
The Post-War Florida, 1945-1960
Contemporary Florida, 1960-
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Host Institution: USF
Other Format:
(OCoLC)07000694
Is Part of Series: Florida heritage collection.