"Walker has made an important addition to the scholarship of the civil rights era. The Ghost of Jim Crow is brief, exhaustively documented...and still fresh enough to be relevant."--Tallahasee.com
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The Ghost of Jim Crow is a worthwhile addition to the historiography of the civil rights movement and its opponents that adds a previously underdeveloped layer of nuance to the academic discussion."--
North Carolina Historical Review"[Walker's] provocative and thoughtful thesis...deserves wider application and development in understanding the various and multifaceted ways in which whites responded to the prospect of school desegregation in particular and racial change more broadly."--
Arkansas Historical Quarterly"The great strength of Walker's argument is its focus on the quieter, bureaucratic attempts to preserve segregation in contrast to the massive resistance of white extremists and their political allies...well-written, extensively documented, and very interesting."--
H-Net Reviews"Walker's crisply written book is a welcome addition to white resistance historiography precisely because he draws attention away from the outspoken segregationists, who so often occupy the center of massive resistance studies, and shines a much-needed light instead on white moderates....An essential read for historians of the civil rights movement."--J. Russell Hawkins,
Journal of Southern History"Fascinating and compelling....The great strength of Walker's argument is its focus on the quieter, bureaucratic attempts to preserve segregation."--Gerald N. Rosenberg,
H-Law"This is an important book written in an engaging style that makes its subject accessible
to a much broader audience than most scholarly monographs. Walker's careful mining of an array of personal political papers, court proceedings, and newspaper accounts underscores the need for additional studies of the region's moderate politicians."--Keith M. Finley,
American Historical Review"Accessible and compelling."--Mary L. Dudziak,
Journal of American History"Well-researched and engaging."--
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