Reconstituting Whiteness: The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission

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245 ACCM (Associated Citizens’ Councils of Mississippi), 39, 43 accommodation, 156 ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union), 28, 159 affirmation achievement of, 102, 194 denial and, 20, 132 enactment of, 5–6, 24 group identity and, 15 identity work and, 20–21, 27, 89, 136, 194, 206n62 Johnston and, 19, 82, 144 persistence of, 21, 136, 137 shifts and trends in, 96, 140 of white privilege, 163, 164 African Americans. See blacks “After Integration Repeal, What?” (Greene), 66 agitators, 104–5, 158, 165, 168 See also civil rights activists Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation (ASC), 162–63, 164 Alabama, Interstate Sovereignty Commission, 134 Albright, Joseph, 74, 76, 83, 217n42 Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education, 134 Alford, Robert, 24, 195 American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 28, 159 Americans for the Preservation of the White Race (APWR), 123, 125, 126, 170–71, 189–90, 229n29 Andrews, Kenneth, 96, 97, 161–62, 164, 181 APWR (Americans for the Preservation of the White Race), 123, 125, 126, 170–71, 189–90, 229n29 “Are You Curious?” (MSSC), 81 ASC (Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation), 162–63, 164 Associated Citizens’ Councils of Mississippi (ACCM), 39, 43 attendance laws, 13, 199 Barbour, William H., 28 Barnett, Ross Citizens’ Council and, 50, 91, 101 election as governor (1959), 49 Freedom Riders and, 111 at Johnson’s inauguration, 118 Johnston and, 59, 87 Meredith’s entry to Ole Miss and, 58 MSSC and, 51, 88, 95 on MSSC public relations, 82 1956 governor’s primary, 36 racial climate during administration, 61 Index Illustrations indicated in bold. 246 Reconstituting Whiteness Barton, Billy, 52 Battle, Clinton, 102–3 Bell, Aubrey, 74, 76, 213n95, 217n41–42 Bevel, James, 103, 112 BIG (Business, Industry, Government), 128, 129 black agency denial of, 48, 49, 102–5, 131, 149–52, 164 denigration of, 102 Black Belt Project, 188–89 Black Codes, 11 Black Monday address (Brady), 38 Black Panthers, 159 blacks boycotts led by, 22, 125–26, 141–42 conservative Mississippians, 36, 67 denigration by Johnston, 82, 141 denigration by MSSC, 67, 76, 87, 88, 112, 115 denigration through silence, 20, 145 as educators, 110–11 as “in-step Negroes,” 109–12 Johnston on treatment of, 81 as MSSC informants, 111, 170, 223n77 NAACP support of, 102 oppression of, 12, 49, 79, 199, 205–6n56 population in District of Columbia (1960), 216n19 population in Mississippi, 67, 216n19 protests by, 48–49 segregation challenges by, 40 segregation support and, 36, 60, 66–67, 74, 76, 87 in state government, 11, 135 violence against, 40, 149 See also black agency; voting and voter registration Blee, Kathleen, 101 blood transfusions, 95, 221n19 Bobo, Lawrence, 27 Bolton, Charles, 199 Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo, 208n97 boycotts black-led, 22, 125–26, 141–42 in Canton, 165, 181 economic, 159, 181–87 in Madison County, 125, 164–65, 181 of Mississippi products, 126, 153 of schools, 176 Braden, Carl, 103 Brady, Tom P., 38, 44, 88 Branch, Ester, 183 breach of peace statute, 13–14 Broadbent, Robert Eugene, 173 Brown, W. W., 210n43 Brown v. Board of Education, 13, 37, 39, 175, 235n12 Bryant, Philip, 52 Burke, Webb, 133 Burlington Free Press, 153–54 Business, Industry, Government (BIG), 128, 129 business leaders, white Civil Rights Act response, 141–42 P. Johnson, and, 126–27 Johnston and, 23–24, 121, 126–29, 136, 145, 187, 196 Campbell, Hayden, 44 Canton, Mississippi boycotts in, 165, 181 chancery clerk campaign in, 188 civil rights activists in, 168 civil rights movement in, 160, 165 civil service examiners in, 179 COFO report on civil rights movement in, 160 CORE in, 165, 182, 183, 186 Freedom House in, 166 integration attempts in, 172 NAACP involvement, 99 rape investigation in, 107 voting and voter registration in, 184 Canton High School, 175 “Can We Stay Peaceful?” (MSSC), 215n9 Index 247 Carr, Michael L., Jr., 218n66 Carson, Johnny, 153, 230n40 Carter (Hodding) family, 136 Carter, Frances, 231–32n34 Carter, Hodding, 51, 211n64 Carter, Hodding, III, 133 Carter family (in Drew), 176–77 “Cause and the Cure, The” (Greene), 154–55 CCA (Citizens’ Council of America), 39–40 CCFAF (Coordination Committee for Fundamental American Freedom), 60 Chaney, James, xiii–xiv, xvi, 169 Chinn, C. O., 98, 183 Citizen, 39 Citizens’ Council, 39 Citizens’ Council Barnett and, 50, 91, 101 during Barnett’s administration, 51 black challenges to segregation and, 40 on Civil Rights Act, 139 Coleman and, 36–37, 61, 91 during Coleman’s administration, 51 description, 7, 14 formation and...