{"product_id":"joe-t-patterson-and-the-white-souths-dilemma-evolving-resistance-to-black-advancement-9781496809551","title":"Joe T. Patterson and the White South's Dilemma: Evolving Resistance to Black Advancement","description":"\u003cp\u003ePatterson was also a card-carrying member of the segregationist Citizens' Council and, in his own words, had \"spent many hours and driven many miles advocating the basic principles for which the Citizens' Councils were originally organized.\" Few ever doubted his Jim Crow credentials. That is until September 1962 and the integration of the University of Mississippi by James Meredith.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThat fall Patterson stepped out of his entrenchment by defying a circle of white power brokers, but only to a point. His seeming acquiescence came at the height of the biggest crisis for Mississippi's racist order. Yet even after the Supreme Court decreed that Meredith must enter the university, Patterson opposed any further desegregation and despised the federal intervention at Ole Miss. Still 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. Once the Supreme Court handed down its decision in\u003cem\u003e Meredith v. Fair\u003c\/em\u003e, the state attorney general walked a strategic tightrope, looking to temper the ruling's impact without inciting the mob and without retreating any further. Patterson and others sought pragmatic answers to the dilemma of white southerners, not in the name of civil rights but to offer a more durable version of white power. His finesse paved the way for future tactics employing duplicity and barely yielding social change while deferring many dreams.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-10357051\"\u003eRobert E. Luckett\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/04\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.02lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781496809551\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1496809556\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-SOC\"\u003eSocial Science\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-SOC031000\"\u003eDiscrimination\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POL\"\u003ePolitical Science\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POL004000\"\u003eCivil Rights\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-HIS\"\u003eHistory\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-HIS036120\"\u003eUnited States | State \u0026amp; Local | South (AL,AR,FL,GA,KY,LA,MS,\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert E. Luckett Jr.\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor of history and director of the Margaret Walker Center at Jackson State University. He is editor of \u003ci\u003eRedefining Liberal Arts Education in the Twenty-First Century\u003c\/i\u003e, published by University Press of Mississippi. His research has appeared in such publications as the \u003ci\u003eJournal of Mississippi History\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFire!!! The Multimedia Journal of Black Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003ePublic Historian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand the \u003ci\u003eJournal of Ethnic American Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44522766074093,"sku":"9781496809551","price":58.33,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_14d3ebfa-c3f8-49f1-b6fc-58659d4ee3b0.jpg?v=1701307157","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/joe-t-patterson-and-the-white-souths-dilemma-evolving-resistance-to-black-advancement-9781496809551","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}