The Godfather of Mississippi
by
J. Lee Annis
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
For decades after the Second World War, Senator James O. Eastland (1904-1986) was one of the more intransigent leaders of the Deep South's resistance to what he called "the Second Reconstruction." And yet he developed, late in his life, a very real friendship with state NAACP chair Aaron...