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===Current interest===

===Current interest===

Gemma is writing a book on southern politics from 1956 to 1976, the period when racial segregation was ended through federal laws and judicial edicts. The project began as a [[biography]] of the late U.S. Representative [[John Rarick]] of [[Louisiana]]'d 6th congressional district, who ran for governor in 1967 and was in 1980 the nominee in eight states of the American Independent Party.<ref name=shotsfired>Peter B. Gemma, ''Shots Fired: Sam Francis on America's Culture War'' (Vienna, Virginia: Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation, 2006), p. 330.</ref> Gemma will instead focus on various state politicians then in office, some of whom were defeated for their stands supporting segregation ([[Albert Watson]] of South Carolina's 2nd congressional district), others of whom switched sides to embrace [[civil rights]] ([[George Wallace]] of [[Alabama]] and [[J. Bennett Johnston, Jr.]] of Louisiana), and still others who retired from the failed fight to preserve segregation ([[Orval Faubus]] of [[Arkansas]]).<ref name=readings/>

Gemma is writing a book on southern politics from 1956 to 1976, the period when racial segregation was ended through federal laws and judicial edicts. The project began as a [[biography]] of the late U.S. Representative [[John Rarick]] of [[Louisiana]]'d 6th congressional district, who ran for governor in 1967 and was in 1980 the nominee in eight states of the American Independent Party.<ref name=shotsfired>Peter B. Gemma, ''Shots Fired: Sam Francis on America's Culture War'' (Vienna, Virginia: Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation, 2006), p. 330.</ref> Gemma instead focused on various state politicians then in office, some of whom were defeated for their stands supporting segregation ([[Albert Watson]] of South Carolina's 2nd congressional district), others of whom switched sides to embrace [[civil rights]] ([[George Wallace]] of [[Alabama]] and [[J. Bennett Johnston, Jr.]] of Louisiana), and still others who retired from the failed fight to preserve segregation ([[Orval Faubus]] of [[Arkansas]]).<ref name=readings/>

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