Frederick M Wirt

Politics of Southern Equality

Law and Social Change in a Mississippi County

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Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 158mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9780202361901
• ISBN-10: 020236190X
• Artikelnr.: 23346683

Autorenporträt

Frederick M. Wirt

Inhaltsangabe

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