Black Struggle, Red Scare: Segregation and Anti-Communism in the South, 1948-1968

Black Struggle, Red Scare is a story during the height of the cold war, when southern segregationists exploited the civil rights movement to an international Communist conspiracy. Jeff Woods explains this story of fervent crusaders for racial equality swept into the South's siege mentality, of crafty political opportunists who played upon white southerners' fear of Communists, and of a people who saw enemies and detected red propaganda everywhere. This book considers the southern red scare as a unique regional phenomenon rather than an offshoot of McCarthyism or massive resistance.