ABSTRACT
During the 1950s, Johnny Reb shed some of the prejudiced thinking he shared with most Georgia whites about blacks. He even refused to join the local White Citizens' Council. Over the next decade, he rose steadily in state politics. As governor of Georgia, he had a fairly progressive civil rights record and generally maintained good relations with the state's black leaders and politicians. Bell, Civiletti, and Days had made a fair effort to challenge the corrupt and racist policies of a runaway police department in Philadelphia. If they had won their suit, police administrators and local officials in other cities might have been forced to implement major reforms. And the riots in Miami only deepened the frustrations of black leaders and ensured that the Carter administration would be permanently scarred by an ambiguous legacy on criminal civil rights enforcement.
