This in-depth account of the rise

and decline of the Citizens' Councils of America details the organization's

role in the massive resistance to school desegregation in the South following

the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision. Included are a new preface and

updated bibliography.

"A tour de force of research and

narration. . . in highly readable style. [McMillen] . . . seems to have read

everything the historical record has to offer on the subject and to have known

exactly what to make of it. . . Himself squarely on the side of the future,

he is sensitive to the anguish that prompted the hysteria of the misguided racist. . . .

By any test, a masterful study." -- Journal of Southern History

"Takes seriously the people who

made the movement, when ridicule and caricature would have been an easier analytical

technique. Solidly researched and well written. . . an intriguing story." --

Augustus M. Burns, Social Studies