Quote Originally Posted by bailey View Post
Was leaving out the "cross-district" part about the busing inadvertent or is it an attempt to make it look like he was like George Wallace standing in the school house door?
This article contains a serious error.


Patterson was not County Prosecutor at the time of the cross-district busing dispute, he was just an ordinary and somewhat unknown attorney. He rose to fame as counsel to the outspoken Irene McCabe, the woman who led the anti-busting movement.


Although Patterson himself was never seen "standing in the schoolhouse door", the people he was counseling did lie down in the street in front of buses to stop them from rolling. And, of course, ultimately the KKK bombed the bus yard. While Patterson was not personally responsible for this, he was the figurehead and spokesman for the entire movement, and it should've been a tipoff as to his racial beliefs.