Postwar racial moral panics centered on the fear of black criminality

Evidence

Americans experienced several racial moral panics in the latter half of the twentieth century—all related to the fear of black criminality. As the nation confronted the grassroots social movements for black freedom, many Southern segregationists called for law and order in the face of the threat of the black criminal. Senator Strom Thurmond suggested that calls for integration would result in “a wave of terror, crime, and juvenile delinquency.” — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 208

Categorization

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