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Clipping from Citizens' Council newspaper, June 1961. Within a few months, the White Citizens Council had attracted members whose racist views were similar to the views of its leaders; new chapters developed beyond Mississippi in the rest of the Deep South. The Council often had the support of the leading white citizens of many communities ...
From 1960 to 1964, the commission secretly funded the White Citizens Council, a private organization, with $190,000 of state funds. [ 18 ] : 75 The commission also used its intelligence-gathering capabilities to assist in the defense of Byron De La Beckwith , the murderer of Medgar Evers in 1963, during his second trial in 1964.
Robert Boyd "Tut" Patterson (December 13, 1921 – September 21, 2017) was an American plantation manager and former college football star who is known for founding the first Citizens' Councils, a white supremacist organization, established in Indianola, Mississippi in 1954, in response to the Brown v.
The Red Clay region of Mississippi is a slice of the state, the middle third in the northern three-fifths. It includes the state capital Jackson and the city of Meridian. [1] [disputed – discuss] The counties of the Red Clay region are majority white.
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The Civil Rights Movement overcame the system that supported the White Citizens Parties, and they have largely disappeared. Some survive under the name Citizens Party (no link with the Citizens Party of Barry Commoner) or Council of Conservative Citizens, and occasionally field serious local candidates with positions to the right of their Republican and Democratic colleagues.
At Kasper's trial, an enthusiastic supporter of his, Joe Diehl, a Knoxville farmer and a leader of the Knoxville Citizens Council, distributed The Coming Red Dictatorship, which claimed that "Asiatic Marxist Jews" were taking over the world, to several people, including the prosecutor. Diehl himself compared the round-up of segregationists to ...
Hillcrest was established in 1970 as a segregation academy in response to the court-ordered integration of public schools. [1]In 1985, W.J Simmons, chair of the state White Citizens Council, discussed the history of the school with Clarion-Ledger.