About the Author

Stephanie R. Rolph, associate professor of history at Millsaps College, earned her Ph.D. in 2009 from Mississippi State University, where she specialised in the history of the American South.

Reviews

For those who think they know the story of the Citizens' Council movement, Stephanie R. Rolph's Resisting Equality will come as a revelation. In her meticulously researched account of the Council and its leadership, Rolph shows how advocates of white supremacy survived the end of segregation by deemphasizing explicit racism and joining hands with elements of the growing national conservative movement that rested upon white identity and a fierce hostility to federal social welfare policies that were seen as favoring nonwhites.--Dan T. Carter, author of The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics