race, Reason, And Massive Resistance Hardcover

These Private Writings By AProminent White Southern Lawyer Offer Insight Into His State,s Embrace Of Massive White Resistance Following The Brown VBoard Of Education RulingDavid JMays Of Richmond, Virginia, Was AHighly Regarded Attorney, APulitzer Prizewinning Biographer, And AMember Of His City,s Political And Social EliteHe Was Also ADiarist For Most Of His Adult LifeThis Volume Comprises Diary Excerpts From The Years To For Much Of This Time Mays Was Counsel To The Commission, Chaired By State Senator Garland Gray, That Was Charged With Formulating Virginia,s Response To Federal Mandates Concerning The Integration Of Public SchoolsLater, Mays Was Involved In Litigation Triggered By That Response.mays Chronicled The State,s Bitter And Divisive Shift Away From The Gray Commission,s Proposal That School Integration Questions Be Settled At The Local LevelInstead, Virginia,s Archsegregationists, Led By U.sSenator Harry FByrd, Championed AMonolithic Defiance Of Integration At The Highest State And Federal LevelsMany Leading Virginians Of The Time Appear In Mays,s Diary, Along With Details Of Their Roles In The Battle Against Desegregation As It Was Fought In The Media, Courts, Polls, And Government Back Rooms.mays,s Own Racial Attitudes Were Hardly Progressive, Yet His Temperament And Legal Training Put ARelatively Moderate Public Face On ThemAs James RSweeney Notes, Mays,s Differences With Extremists Were About Means More Than Endsabout 'not The Morality Of Jim Crow But The Best Tactics For Defending It.' '