Joe T. Patterson and the White south's dilemma : evolving resistance to Black advancement /
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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
[2015]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.