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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 ...
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.
Evers was murdered in 1963 at his home in Jackson, Mississippi, now the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument, by Byron De La Beckwith, [1] a member of the White Citizens' Council in Jackson. His murder and the resulting trials inspired civil rights protests. His life and death have inspired numerous works of art, music, and film.
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.
The White Citizens' Council paid De La Beckwith's legal expenses in both his 1964 trials. [7] In January 1966, De La Beckwith, along with a number of other members of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, was subpoenaed by the House Un-American Activities Committee to testify about Klan activities.
The resolution said, "in order to effect an equitable and amicable solution to said racial chaos, friction and sectional division, the Citizens' Council of America hereby urge the various local and state organizations in the South to take necessary and judicious action to expedite volunteer migration of any dissatisfied Negroes from the South."
But the second day was filled with violence, protests, and riots. A group of white supremacists and people who favored segregation showed up to Clinton to stop the desegregation. The leader of this group was John Kasper who was an executive of the White Citizens Council and a member of the Ku Klux Klan. This group of adults, along with white ...
The group was affiliated with the White Citizens' Councils that existed throughout the United States during the Civil Rights Movement, as well as other state and regional segregationist organizations. A year after its formation, White America, Inc., merged with the official White Citizens' Council chapter in Little Rock.