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James Plemon Coleman (January 9, 1914 – September 28, 1991) was an American judge, the 52nd governor of Mississippi and a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
28 de set. de 1991 · As governor of Mississippi, James P. Coleman wrote Martin Luther King in 1956 to dissuade him from making a visit to the state to speak at the fifth annual meeting of the Mississippi Regional Council of Negro Leadership.
(b. 9 January 1914 near Ackerman, Mississippi; d. 28 September 1991 in Ackerman, Mississippi), politician, Mississippi governor, and federal appeals court judge best known for his efforts to prevent violence while defending segregation during the struggle over civil rights in the South.
At the time of his 1955 election, Coleman, who was born near Ackerman on his family farm in Choctaw County on 9 January 1914, had already served as an aide to a US congressman, a district attorney, a circuit judge, a state attorney general, and a justice of the state Supreme Court.
29 de set. de 1991 · JAMES P. COLEMAN, the fifty-first governor of Mississippi, was born in Ackerman, Mississippi on January 9, 1914. His education was attained at the University of Mississippi, and at George Washington University, where he earned a law degree in 1939.
Coleman was sworn in as Governor of Mississippi on January 17, 1956. Perceived to be a “moderate” segregationist, Coleman supported legal means of resisting desegregation while disavowing extremist rhetoric or tactics by white supremacists.
King protests the lynching of Mack Charles Parker in Poplarville, Mississippi. 1 Mississippi governor James R. Coleman replied rapidly, assuring King that “every possible effort” was being made to find the perpetrators. 2 King also wired Attorney General William P. Rogers, seeking federal intervention. 3
