Rumor, repression, and racial politics : how the harassment of Black elected officials shaped post-civil rights America /

Title:

Rumor, repression, and racial politics : how the harassment of Black elected officials shaped post-civil rights America /

Author:

Musgrove, George Derek, 1975-

Published:

Athens : c2012.

Format:

Book

Institution:

Emmanuel College

Contents:

Introduction : "a sense of history, not hysteria" -- The white backlash and the roots of harassment ideology, 1965-1968 -- Black elected officials, white resistance, and the surveillance state, 1965-1974 -- Discovering "harassment" in the post-Watergate period, 1975-1980 -- Prosecution as political warfare in the Reagan and Bush years, 1981-1992 -- The "selective prosecution" of Black elected officials in Alabama, 1981-1992 -- The Center for the Study of the Harassment of African Americans and the decline of antiharassment organizing, 1987-1995 -- Conclusion : political warfare ascendant -- Appendix. State Scrutiny of Black Congresspeople, 1929-2010.

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