Segregationist lawlessness backfired by speeding desegregation

Evidence

According to this argument, segregationist brutality and lawlessness only elicited the nation’s sympathies for the civil rights movement and inspired the intervention of the federal government. Massive resistance not only failed to save segregation, this theory holds, but actually helped speed its demise. — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 26

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Desegregation pressure forced segregationists to reinvent themselves as respectable homeowners — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 106; Court-ordered desegregation of public spaces produced resegregation and private alternatives, not integration — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 250; Voluntary local desegregation produced tokenism and arbitrary exclusion rather than integration. — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 481 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Voluntary local desegregation produced tokenism and arbitrary exclusion rather than integration. #complicates (0.78) — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 481
• Court-ordered desegregation of public spaces produced resegregation and private alternatives, not integration #complicates (0.75) — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 250
• Color-blind respectability politics marginalized open segregationists #expands (0.74) — Matthew D. Lassiter, The Suburban Origins of “Color-Blind”…, 95
• Desegregation pressure forced segregationists to reinvent themselves as respectable homeowners #expands (0.72) — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 106