Southern segregationists mounted insurrection-level obstruction after Brown

Evidence

In the aftermath of the Brown decision, they had developed the “massive resistance” strategy, which involved local obstructionism that sometimes approached insurrection. They had mercilessly harassed and degraded black people, and terrorized not only local communities but federal ofÏcials. Civil rights reforms been achieved in the teeth of these tactics. — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 207

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Legal desegregation of primaries drove Georgia segregationists toward open threats of violence by 1946 — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 60; Southern officials mounted coordinated legislative and political resistance to Brown across multiple states — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 2991; White southerners largely complied with desegregation once defiance demonstrably failed — Matthew D. Lassiter, The Suburban Origins of “Color-Blind”…, 95 (+4 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Legal desegregation of primaries drove Georgia segregationists toward open threats of violence by 1946 — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 60; Southern officials mounted coordinated legislative and political resistance to Brown across multiple states — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 2991; White southerners largely complied with desegregation once defiance demonstrably failed — Matthew D. Lassiter, The Suburban Origins of “Color-Blind”…, 95 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Southern officials mounted coordinated legislative and political resistance to Brown across multiple states #exemplifies (0.95) — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 2991
• White southerners largely complied with desegregation once defiance demonstrably failed #complicates (0.80) — Matthew D. Lassiter, The Suburban Origins of “Color-Blind”…, 95
• Congress, not the Court alone, dismantled Southern school segregation #complicates (0.78) — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 3038