Joseph Crespino, “The Best Defense Is a Good Offense: The Stennis Amendment and the Fracturing of Liberal School Desegregation Policy, 1964–1972,” Journal of Policy History 18, no. 3 (2006): 304–25.

Peter Irons, Jim Crow’s Children: The Broken Promise of the Brown Decision (New York: Penguin, 2004).

Matthew D. Lassiter, “De Jure/De Facto Segregation: The Long Shadow of a National Myth,” in The Myth of Southern Exceptionalism, ed. Matthew D. Lassiter and Joseph Crespino (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), 25–48.