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In the mid-1950s, when Jim Crow laws reigned in Alabama, state attorney general John M. Patterson — later a Ku Klux Klan-supported governor — filed a lawsuit against the National
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John M. Patterson, Segregationist Alabama Governor, Dies at 99 He welcomed the Klan and refused to integrate schools, forging a path that would be followed by Gov. George C. Wallace. Gov. John M. Patterson at his office in Montgomery, Ala., in 1961. He was the youngest governor in Alabama history, serving only one term.Credit...Horace Cort/Associated Press June 5, 2021, 7:48 p.m. ET John M. Patterson, a defiant segregationist who defeated and preceded George C. Wallace as the governor of Alabama as the South plunged into the violence and turmoil of the civil rights movement in the late 1950s ...