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Joe T. Patterson and the White South's dilemma : evolving resistance to black advancement /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Luckett, Robert E., Jr (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2015]
Subjects:
Patterson, Joe T., > 1907-1969.
African Americans > Civil rights > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
Mississippi > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Mississippi > Politics and government > 1951-
Racism > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
Mississippi. > Attorney-General's Office > Biography.
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.