Senator James Eastland: Mississippi's Jim Crow Democrat

by Maarten Zwiers

In the years following World War II, the national Democratic Party aligned its agenda more and more with the goals of the civil rights movement. By contrast, a majority of southern Democrats remained as committed as ever to a traditional, segregationist ideology. Through the career of Senator James Eastland, one of the mid-century's most prominent politicians, author Maarten Zwiers explores the uneasy, yet mutually beneficial relationship between...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807160016
• ISBN13: 9780807160015
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"