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      Politics of Southern Equality
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      Law and Social Change in a Mississippi County

      Politics of Southern Equality

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      Law and Social Change in a Mississippi County
      ByFrederick M. Wirt
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 1970
      eBook Published 25 October 2017
      Pub. Location New York
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315126890
      Pages 345
      eBook ISBN 9781315126890
      Subjects Politics & International Relations
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      Wirt, F.M. (1970). Politics of Southern Equality: Law and Social Change in a Mississippi County (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315126890

      ABSTRACT

      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 to effect social change on a large scale.

      The need to substitute empirical knowledge for abstract speculation motivates Wirt's study. Wirt restricts his study to one county but with conclusions on comparative studies that illumine the emerging political sociology of the South. The author sketches the historical setting of Panola County, emphasizing on the demographic, economic, and political developments in recent decades. He then examines what has actually happened in race relations as an effect of civil rights laws affecting votes, schools, and jobs.

      Wirt utilizes documentary material from federal, state, and county sources; local newspapers; and records from business and other groups. But his closer understanding comes from personal interviews. Because federal law is the dynamic factor setting the social system in movement, the author explains the interactions between public opinion, the President, and the Congress, which in the end resulted in the laws on votes, schools, and jobs. He also deals with the differing machinery of sanctions and enforcement. Law has a huge effect on social change; and Wirt draws from his empirical study a systematic, inclusive statement of the factors affecting compliance with law, in conditions of conventional biases.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      part One|1 pages

      The Background for Research

      chapter 1|16 pages

      Theories of Law and Social Change

      chapter 2|31 pages

      The Society of Panola County

      part Two|1 pages

      The Law and Voting Equality

      chapter 3|19 pages

      Congress and Voting Legislation

      chapter 4|19 pages

      Enforcement and Legal Content

      chapter 5|26 pages

      The Politics of Litigation

      chapter 6|29 pages

      COFO and Black Politics, 1964-1965

      chapter 7|17 pages

      The Growth of Political Power, 1965-1968

      chapter 8|13 pages

      Racial Political Strategies in the New South

      part Three|1 pages

      The Law and Educational Equality

      chapter 9|16 pages

      The Federal Mandate of Change

      chapter 10|20 pages

      Changing Schools in Panola County

      chapter 11|23 pages

      Limitations on the Law's Effect

      part Four|1 pages

      The Law and Economic Equality

      chapter 12|16 pages

      Federal Subsidy of Economic Rights

      chapter 13|22 pages

      Federal Regulation of Economic Rights

      part Five|1 pages

      The Effect of Law on Social Change

      chapter 14|12 pages

      Effect on Social Change: Regulation and Regulator

      chapter 15|22 pages

      Effect on Social Change: Regulated and Regulatee

      part |1 pages

      Epilog

      chapter The|9 pages

      Corner Is Turned in Panola

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