1st Edition
Politics of Southern Equality Law and Social Change in a Mississippi County
By Frederick M. Wirt
Copyright 1970
350 Pages
by
Routledge
350 Pages
by
Routledge
345 Pages
by
Routledge
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This path-breaking text deals with the effects of federal civil rights legislation on the behavior and attitudes of the inhabitants of a single county in Mississippi--Panola County. These effects are examined in the three civil rights areas of voting, education, and economic opportunities. By using this smaller example, Frederick M. Wirt's broader interest is to show how legislation can be used... Read more
One: The Background for Research; 1: Theories of Law and Social Change; 2: The Society of Panola County; Two: The Law and Voting Equality; 3: Congress and Voting Legislation; 4: Enforcement and Legal Content; 5: The Politics of Litigation; 6: COFO and Black Politics, 1964-1965; 7: The Growth of Political Power, 1965-1968; 8: Racial Political Strategies in the New South; Three: The Law and Educational Equality; 9: The Federal Mandate of Change; 10: Changing Schools in Panola County; 11: Limitations on the Law's Effect; Four: The Law and Economic Equality; 12: Federal Subsidy of Economic Rights; 13: Federal Regulation of Economic Rights; Five: The Effect of Law on Social Change; 14: Effect on Social Change: Regulation and Regulator; 15: Effect on Social Change: Regulated and Regulatee; Epilog; The: Corner Is Turned in Panola
Biography
Frederick M. Wirt
