It had been a stronghold of white resistance to integration.

The first is a climactic split of the white resistance.

Many black community leaders believed that segregation should be challenged in the courts and that direct action excited white resistance, hostility, and violence.

Or that white resistance has grown?

From the late 1960s onward it was internal problems, rather than white resistance, that impaired the Delta Ministry's efforts.

The question of school integration has been increasingly questioned in the face of hostile court decisions, continued white resistance and growing black cultural nationalism.

The tenacity of white resistance to change can be gauged in a court action that dates to the early 1970's.

Thirty years ago Central High School was forcibly desegregated in the face of violent white resistance.

'Prepare for War' The bombings have followed other ominous signs of white resistance to change.

No doubt some measure of opposition to affirmative action reflects the old story of white resistance to black gains.