In this first authorized biography of former Alabama Governor John
Patterson, historian Warren Trest offers new insights and rich
details into the life of a significant Southern politician whose
career touched some of the key struggles of the twentieth-century
civil rights movement. Patterson later recanted his segregationist
views and went on to become a widely respected judge, but as
governor from 1958–62, he led Alabama into full white-supremacist
rebellion against the national effort to integrate schools and
public accommodations. He was a rare Southern supporter of JFK in
1960, but the two broke bitterly over the 1961 Freedom Rides and
Kennedy had to send federal marshals into Montgomery to quell
KKK-led mobs. Not merely a civil rights account, Nobody But the
People also details Patterson's World War II heroism, his role as
attorney general in cleaning up vice and corruption, and his
efforts to improve education and the economy. Patterson is revealed
as a complex and likable politician and jurist whose career was
unfortunately blighted by decisions he later regretted on racial
issues.
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