Manuscripts in Progress

Nichols, Joseph R. “‘To Defend and Strengthen Their Heritage’: White Flight from Public Schools and the Rise of Segregation Academies in the 1960s South.” History of Education Quarterly. (revise and resubmit; in revision)

Nichols, Joseph R. This Is Maddox Country: Georgia Governor Lester G. Maddox and the White Backlash in American Politics. Under contract with the University of South Carolina Press. (due to the publisher January 15, 2025)

Nichols, Joseph R. and Alyssa Ignaczak. “Help Our Public Education (HOPE), Concerned Motherhood, and Integrating Atlanta’s Public Schools.” Journal of Southern History. (identified for submission)
Nichols, Joseph R. “‘We Fight for Our Children and for Our Liberty”: Governor Lester G. Maddox and White Flight from Public Schools in Georgia.”
Nichols, Joseph R., Natalie Gerke, and Stephanie Hendel. “‘Unless Something Is Done, and Done Quickly, We Can Just Kiss Our Schools Goodbye’: Governor Lester G. Maddox and the Post-Brown Private School Movement in Georgia.”
Nichols, Joseph R. and Bailey Hanson. “Us Versus Them: The Rhetoric of Separation in Governor Lester G. Maddox’s Response to School Integration in Georgia, 1967-1971.”
Nichols, Joseph R. and R. Lauren Miller. “Americanism-Communism: Southern Segregationist Governor Lester G. Maddox of Georgia, Cold War Fear Mongering, and Conservative Politics.”