Joe T. Patterson and the White south's dilemma : evolving resistance to Black advancement

Joe T. Patterson and the White south's dilemma : evolving resistance to Black advancement / Robert E. Luckett Jr.

As Mississippi's attorney general from 1956 to 1969, Joe T. Patterson led the legal defense for Jim Crow in the state. He faced a dilemma that confronted all white southerners: how to maintain an artificially elevated position for whites in southern society without resorting to violence or inti...

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Main Author: Luckett, Robert E., Jr (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2015]
Subjects:
Patterson, Joe T., > 1907-1969.
Patterson, Joe T., > 1907-1969
Mississippi. > Attorney-General's Office > Biography.
Mississippi. > Attorney-General's Office
Since 1900
African Americans > Civil rights > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
Racism > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Civil Rights.
African Americans > Civil rights
Civil rights movements
Politics and government
Race relations
Racism
Mississippi > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Mississippi > Politics and government > 1951-
Mississippi
Electronic book.
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • Lessons in practical segregation
  • Challenges for the Jim Crow hierarchy
  • Fissures in the segregationist fold
  • White paranoia and Black informants
  • Black advancement and federal intervention
  • Braying jackasses
  • Would-be ruthless dictators
  • Freedom summer
  • Practical racism
  • School desegregation and freedom of choice.

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