Senator James Eastland: Mississippi's Jim Crow DemocratIn 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