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...Patterson was elected to his dead father's job, led the fight to mop up the mob in Phenix City. More important, he became a hero to many an Alabama voter by putting the N.A.A.C.P. out of business in the state for refusing to disclose membership lists. He fought Negro boycotts of stores in Tuskegee and of buses in Montgomery...
...K.K.K. In 1958 Patterson started out way back in the pack in the race among the Democrats for the Governor's mansion. He gained ground fast. With no program of his own to speak of, Patterson made himself the chief critic of the clownish reign of James ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom, the outgoing Governor. Using his attorney general's stationery, Patterson sent out a letter to the Ku Klux Klan mailing list, which declared: "A mutual friend, Mr. R. N. Shelton, of ours, in Tuscaloosa, has suggested that I ask for your support." When it turned out that...
...Favor Rewarded. John Patterson was elected Governor of Alabama, and he set right out to make a segregationist record. He expelled students from Alabama State College for Negroes who took part in sit-ins, promised to close down the University of Alabama if it accepted a Negro. If anyone pushed for school integration, Patterson said flatly, "I will be one of the ones leading the trouble...
...Patterson dropped by Jack Kennedy's Georgetown home for breakfast and emerged so impressed that 13 months before the convention he became the first Southern Governor to back the young Senator for President. Alabama still went for Lyndon Johnson in Los Angeles, but Patterson got his reward this spring when Charles M. Meriwether, his old campaign manager, was nominated by Kennedy as a director of the Export-Import Bank. Meriwether was eventually confirmed by the Senate despite reports of connections with the Klan...
Vagabond Toad. One morning last week, Governor Patterson strode briskly down the cherry-red carpeted staircase in the Governor's mansion and out onto the marble terrace for breakfast. Already at the table were his wife Mary Jo (called "Tuti"), their twelve-year-old son Albert L., and their eight-year-old daughter Barbara Louise. Cardinals flitted through the gigantic water oaks and pecan trees on the mansion lawn, and a squad of six Negro trusty prisoners in white uniforms trimmed the grass while the Governor attacked a plate of muffins and bacon. Suddenly a furor arose...