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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 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/>

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