What is the theme in The Strange Career of Jim Crow by C. Vann Woodward?

The South has had two reconstruction periods. To Southerners, the term "reconstruction" has bitter connotations because it refers to a dismal period of time during which the South faced the humiliation of defeat and occupation after the Civil War. Many are also bitter about the ascendancy of the civil rights movement and the intrusion of the Supreme Court and the other branches of the federal government into their lives during the 1950's and 1960's that drastically altered their political/economic/social system once again. In retrospect, then, the South has had two "reconstructions," with similarities and differences. In both reconstruction periods, there were liberals and radicals who pushed hard for change in the status of blacks. There were laws and Supreme Court decisions which challenged the existing order and attempted to "force" the South into compliance.