Silent, no more: The 1974 Kanawha County textbook controversy and the rise of conservatism in America

Silent, No More explores the 1974 Kanawha County textbook controversy, and places it within the context of the rise of conservatism in America. This rise can be seen in the upsurge of grassroots, community activism in the seventies, the White Backlash associated with the campaigns of George Wallace, the New Right, and the New Christian Right. The thesis shows how the Kanawha County protestors' words and actions paralleled that of aforementioned conservative movements, creating, in the end, one of the first manifestations of a single-issue conservative uprising in the seventies.

Name thesis:degree_name

MA

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

History

Year dc:date.available

2006

Author dc:creator

• McHenry, Justin J.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Elizabeth Fones-Wolf.
• Kenneth Fones-Wolf
• Barbara Rasmussen

• American history
• Education history

Identifier

https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/696

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:researchrepository.wvu.edu:etd-1699