LS240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: John Birch Society, Little Rock Nine, Alger Hiss
16 Jan 2020
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Black insurgency and white supremacist construction of threat. Mainly targeted african-americans, who were seen as a threat to southern white male hegemony. Use of violence to suppress & intimidate. More decentralized network of white supremacist, hate group. Series of losses to communism (the new deal, china, korean war, alger. Mccarthyism (anti-communist movement) as template for patriot movements to attack civil rights movement. Patriot movements blend anticommunism and white supremacy into a single narrative of a federally instigated conspiracy against americans. Civil rights movement seen as a threat to white heritage. Little rock nine (the use of national guard seen as threat by white supremacists) John birch society (pro-segregation and anti-communist social movement) Civil rights movement cast as communist plot . Fringe groups broke away john birch society. Disagreement over use of violence and accommodation. Gun rights (second amendment) and new one world government conspiracy fear of inevitable communist take over . Rejection of any authority above the county especially federal.
