JACKSON, Miss.-At first, DeAnna Tisdale was startled to see the wizened old man sitting outside the hospital room of her father, legendary Black newspaper publisher and long time civil rights activist Charles Tisdale.
"Grand Wizard?" she inquired.
The short white man looked straight ahead with an unexpectedly endearing smile and tearful eyes. Sure enough, there he was, the white supremacist who had preached segregation as hard as Tisdale, now laying in a coma in his hospital bed, had spent his years championing equal rights.
"I'm Mr. Richard Barrett," Tisdale's daughter recalled him saying. "I've known your father for years. I'm not coming to start any …
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