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The White Citizens' Councils were an associated network of white supremacist, [1] segregationist organizations in the United States, concentrated in the South and created as part of a white backlash against the US Supreme Court's landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling. The first was formed on July 11, 1954. [2]
Whites in the Deep South called the day "Black Monday." Some white Southerners channeled their ire into a new movement called Citizens' Councils — organizations of white segregationists and...
As late as 1966, the White Citizens’ Council teamed up with the virulently anti-Communist John Birch Society to petition the federal government to investigate whether King and over 100,000 other rights activists had Communist connections.
The White Citizens Councils, a loosely connected series of local groups which have arisen throughout the South in protest against the Supreme Court’s May 17, 1954 desegregation decision, undoubtedly constitute a very significant political phenomenon.
The White Citizens’ Council was formed in July 1954 in Indianola, a little north of Yazoo City in the heart of the Mississippi Delta, by a World War II veteran and plantation manager,...
Headquartered in Missouri, the CCC opposes school desegregation, interracial marriage and race mixing, affirmative action, welfare programs, and immigration. It advocates states’ rights and Confederate heritage.
White Citizens' Councils were established during the 1950s in reaction to federal initiatives to end racial segregation in the South. Historically, they were similar to the various white supremacy groups that grew out of the extreme racial tensions defining southern culture after the Civil War.
White Citizens' Council was formed in Claredon County, South Carolina in August 1955. The constitution of this Council is in favor of anything working toward separate and equal facilities. All the men on the Coun-cil are "honorable, lawful men." Throughout the country the Councils are estimated today to have a mem-bership of 300, 000.9 A few have a
Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour is still in the news for his defense of the role of the Citizens Council in dealing with desegregation and civil rights in Yazoo City. Many see the councils —...
The White Citizens' Councils claimed to not endorse or engage in explicit violence and in that way tried to differentiate themselves from groups like the Ku Klux Klan. The Councils, dubbed the "Uptown KKK," did largely avoid the Klan’s stigma but shared many goals—and in some cases, members.