Evolving Resistance to Black Advancement
by
Robert E. Luckett
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
As Mississippi's attorney general from 1956 to 1969, Joe T. Patterson led the legal defense for Jim Crow in the state. He was inaugurated for his first term two months before the launch of the Sovereignty Commission--charged "to protect the sovereignty of Mississippi from encroachment thereon...