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Federalism Vindicated: University Desegregation in South Carolina and Alabama, 1962–1963

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Marcia G. Synnott
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By the 1950s, two contrasting strategies of white leadership were emerging in the South: “massive resistance” and “moderation.” Both were equally committed in principle to a defense of segregation, but they employed different tactics: The former trumpeted “defiance,” the later counseled “delay.” The strategists of-“massive resistance,” who for a decade largely dominated politics in Alabama and Mississippi, were convinced that any concession, even a tactical one, would be a dangerous break in the dike of segregation. They believed that defiance could deter the federal government from enforcing the university desegregation decisions and Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954; 1955). On the other hand, the strategists of “moderation,” who gained political ascendancy in South Carolina, maneuvered within the law, first to postpone implementation of Brown, and then to determine the minimum amount of desegregation that blacks would accept, which would not at the same time inflame white racists. In effect, they used skillful tactics of delay to “moderate” both white racism and black aspirations. Ultimately, they were more successful in achieving their objectives than the resisters, because they avoided sweeping federal interventions.

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Journal of Policy History , Volume 1 , Issue 3 , July 1989 , pp. 292 - 318
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Copyright © The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. 1989

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The research for this essay, which was first presented to the American Historical Association annual meeting, Washington, D.C., 28 December 1987, was funded by grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Philosophical Society, the Southern Regional Education Board, and by support from the University of South Carolina (sabbatical leave and grants from the Committee on Research and Productive Scholarship, the Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, the Provost's Research Incentive Committee, and the Department of History).

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