This in-depth account of the riseand decline of the Citizens' Councils of America details the organization'srole in the massive resistance to school desegregation in the South followingthe 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision. Included are a new preface andupdated bibliography."A tour de force of research andnarration. . . in highly readable style. [McMillen] . . . seems to have readeverything the historical record has to offer on the subject and to have knownexactly what to make of it. . . Himself squarely on the side of the future,he is sensitive to the anguish that prompted the hysteria of the misguided racist. . . .By any test, a masterful study." -- Journal of Southern History"Takes seriously the people whomade the movement, when ridicule and caricature would have been an easier analyticaltechnique. Solidly researched and well written. . . an intriguing story." --Augustus M. Burns, Social Studies
