Politics of Southern Equality: Law and Social Change in a Mississippi County

ISBN-13: 9781138530379 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 345 str.

Frederick M. Wirt

Opis

This path-breaking text deals with the effects of federal civil rights legislation on the behavior and attitudes of the inhabitants of a single county in Mississippi--Panola County

Spis treści

One: The Background for Research; 1: Theories of Law and Social Change; 2: The Society of Panola County; Two: The Law and Voting Equality; 3: Congress and Voting Legislation; 4: Enforcement and Legal Content; 5: The Politics of Litigation; 6: COFO and Black Politics, 1964-1965; 7: The Growth of Political Power, 1965-1968; 8: Racial Political Strategies in the New South; Three: The Law and Educational Equality; 9: The Federal Mandate of Change; 10: Changing Schools in Panola County; 11: Limitations on the Law's Effect; Four: The Law and Economic Equality; 12: Federal Subsidy of Economic Rights; 13: Federal Regulation of Economic Rights; Five: The Effect of Law on Social Change; 14: Effect on Social Change: Regulation and Regulator; 15: Effect on Social Change: Regulated and Regulatee; Epilog; The: Corner Is Turned in Panola

O autorze

Frederick M. Wirt