Rabble Rousers: The American Far Right in the Civil Rights Era

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 PART 1 Outside Agitators: Bryant Bowles and John Kasper Chapter 1 A Blueprint for Rebellion: Bryant Bowles and the Milford School Crisis 15 Chapter 2 A Collapse of Law and Order: John Kasper and Segregationist Resistance in Clinton 39 Chapter 3 Into the Abyss: The Nashville School Crisis 72 PART 2 Never-Ending War: John Crommelin and Edwin Walker Chapter 4 Fighting the Hidden Force: John Crommelin and the Defense of Alabama 103 Chapter 5 Assumption of Command: Military Officers and Massive Resistance 134 PART 3 Southern Fuehrer: J. B. Stoner Chapter 6 “We Don’t Believe in Tolerance”: Terrorist Responses to Civil Rights Reform 153 Chapter 7 Fighting for Freedom by Defending the Enemy: Stoner and the Hate Speech Issue 184 viii Contents Conclusion 210 Notes 215 Bibliography 259 Index 283 ...