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Author Luckett, Robert E., Jr., author.

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

Publication Info. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2015]
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 291 pages)
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Summary 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 intimidation.
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Subject Patterson, Joe T., 1907-1969.
Patterson, Joe T., 1907-1969.
Mississippi. Attorney-General's Office -- Biography.
Mississippi. Attorney-General's Office.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Civil rights.
Mississippi.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights movements.
Mississippi -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
Mississippi -- Politics and government -- 1951-
Chronological Term 1951-
Subject Racism -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.
Racism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
Race relations.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
Politics and government.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Civil Rights.
Chronological Term Since 1900
Genre/Form History.
Biographies.
Subject Racism.
Other Form: Print version: Luckett, Robert E., Jr. Joe T. Patterson and the White south's dilemma. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2015 9781496802699 (DLC) 2015005900
ISBN 9781496802736 (electronic book)
149680273X (electronic book)
9781496802705
1496802705
1496802691
9781496802699
9781496802699 (hardcover alkaline paper)

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