The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture - Volume 10 Law and Politics »

Charles Reagan Wilson is director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi and coeditor, with William Ferris, of the original Encyclopedia of Southern Culture.

Volume 10 of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture combines two of the sections from the original edition, adding extensive updates and 53 entirely new articles. In the law section of this volume, 16 longer essays address broad concepts ranging from law schools to family law, from labor relations to school prayer. The 43 topical entries focus on specific legal cases and individuals, including historical legal professionals, parties from landmark cases, and even the fictional character Atticus Finch, highlighting the roles these individuals have played in shaping the identity of the region.

The politics section includes 34 essays on matters such as Reconstruction, social class and politics, and immigration policy. New essays reflect the changing nature of southern politics, away from the one-party system long known as the "solid South" to the lively two-party politics now in play in the region. Seventy shorter topical entries cover individual politicians, political thinkers, and activists who have made significant contributions to the shaping of southern politics.

General Introduction     xiii
Introduction     xix
Law
Law and Southern Society     3
Civil Rights Movement     19
Common Law     24
Convict Lease System and Peonage     26
Criminal Justice     30
Criminal Law     33
Family Law     36
Labor Relations and Law     42
Law Schools     47
Lawyer, Image of     51
Massive Resistance     54
Police Forces     58
River Law     61
School Prayer     63
State Sovereignty Commissions     67
States' Rights Constitutionalism     71
Supreme Court     73
Black, Hugo     79
Black Codes     81
Brown v. Board of Education     81
Buchanan v. Warley     83
Campbell, John A.     84
Catron, John     85
Daniel, Peter V.     87
Emigrant Agent Laws     88
Ervin, Sam, Jr.     90
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals     92
Finch, Atticus     93
Foreman, Percy     94
Frank, Leo, Case     95
Greensboro Sit-ins     98
Herndon, Angelo, Case     99
Iredell, James     100
Jaworski, Leon     101
Johnson, Frank M., Jr.     102
Johnson, William     105
Lamar, Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus     106
Little Rock Crisis     108
Marshall, John     110
Morgan, Charles, Jr.     112
Napoleonic Code     112
Parks, Rosa     114
Plessy v. Ferguson     115
Powell, Lewis F.     116
Prather v. Prather     118
Roane, Spencer     119
Robinson, Spottswood W., III     121
Ruffin, Thomas Carter     122
Scopes Trial     123
Scott, Dred, Case     126
Scottsboro Case     127
Slave Codes     128
Slave Patrols     129
Stone, George Washington     130
Thomas, Clarence     131
Tucker Family     133
Tuttle, Elbert P.     135
Tutwiler, Julia     136
White, Edward Douglas     137
Wisdom, John Minor     139
Politics
Politics and Ideology     143
Cold War      167
Congress     169
County Politics     173
Culture Wars     177
Demagogues     182
Democratic Party     185
Dixiecrats     189
Emancipation     191
Foreign Policy     195
Government Administration     201
Ideology, Political     204
Immigration Policy and Politics     207
Jacksonian Democracy     213
Jeffersonian Tradition     217
Legislatures, State     221
National Politics     225
New Deal     230
One-Party Politics     232
Partisan Politics     236
Politician, Image of     241
Populist Party     246
Progressivism     250
Protest Movements     253
Race and Southern Politics     259
Reconstruction     266
Redemption     271
Religion and Southern Politics     275
Republican Party     278
Segregation, Defense of     284
Social Class and Southern Politics     289
Taxing and Spending     294
Violence, Political      297
Voting     301
Women in Southern Politics     305
All the King's Men     311
Ames, Jessie Daniel     313
Baker, Ella Jo     314
Baker, Howard, Jr.     315
Barnett, Ross     316
Bilbo, Theodore     318
Boggs, Lindy     319
Bush, George W.     320
Byrd Machine     321
Calhoun, John C.     321
Carter, Jimmy     322
Carter, Lillian     324
Clinton, Bill     325
Crump, E. H.     327
Davis, Jefferson     328
Durr, Virginia     329
Edelman, Marian Wright     331
Faubus, Orval     333
Felton, Rebecca     334
Folsom, James     335
Fulbright, J. William     337
Gingrich, Newt     338
Gore, Al, Jr.     340
Hamer, Fannie Lou     341
Hampton, Wade, III     343
Hays, Brooks     344
Helms, Jesse     345
Hobby, Oveta Culp     347
Hull, Cordell     348
Jackson, Andrew     349
Jackson, Jesse      350
Jefferson, Thomas     353
Johnson, Andrew     354
Johnson, Lady Bird     356
Johnson, Lyndon B.     357
Jordan, Barbara     358
Kefauver, Estes     360
Key, V.O., Jr.     361
Lewis, John R.     362
Long, Huey P.     364
Lott, Trent     365
Lynch, John Roy     367
Maddox, Lester     368
Madison, James     369
Monroe, James     370
Moral Majority     372
New South Governors     374
Pepper, Claude     375
Polk, James Knox     377
Prohibition     378
Radical Republicans     379
Randolph, John     381
Rayburn, Sam     381
Richards, Ann     382
Russell, Richard B.     385
Secession     386
Smith, Frank     387
Southern Governors' Association     388
Southern Strategy     389
Talmadge, Eugene     390
Taylor, John     393
Taylor, Zachary     394
Thurmond, Strom     396
Tillman, Benjamin Ryan      398
Voting Rights Act (1965)     399
Wallace, George     402
Washington, George     404
Watson, Tom     405
Wilson, Woodrow     406
Young, Andrew     407
Index of Contributors     411
Index     413