JFK with Governor Patterson

John F. Kennedy and Alabama Governor John Patterson are surrounded by supporters at a Kennedy-Johnson rally.

Alabama Governor Patterson with Bull Connor

Governor John Patterson shakes hands with a young boy in Montgomery, AL as Bull Connor (right) looks on.

Alabama Injunction Against Freedom Riders

Gov. John Patterson confers with Floyd Mann, Alabama Public Safety Director, in Montgomery, AL. Mann's department distributed an injunction against Freedom Riders to state highway patrolmen with orders to read it aboard interstate buses stopped upon entry to the state.

Gov. John Patterson with Robert Kennedy

Governor John Patterson confers with Attorney General Robert Kennedy.

Gov. John Patterson

On the risk he took supporting John Kennedy

Gov. John Patterson

On the attempts to delay desegregation efforts

Gov. John Patterson

On voting rights in Jim Crow Alabama

Gov. John Patterson

On sending an undercover officer on the Freedom Rider bus