The Devil Won, Hands Down
The Devil Won, Hands Down
Opposition in Americus
This chapter details the response of segregationists and conservatives to the civil rights movement. It describes the depiction of the movement as violent following the death of Andy Whately, the ostracization of white Southerners who sympathized with demands for justice, like Warren Fortson, and the establishment of private Christian schools in response to integration. In these actions, white conservatives reframed their resistance to racial justice in theological terms that would come to define the Religious Right.
Keywords: Carl Sanders, Law and order, Warren Fortson, Bi-racial committee, School desegregation, Sibley Commission, Southland Academy, Segregation academies, Engel v. Vitale, Jerry Falwell
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