Segregationist-Infrastructure

Council of Conservative Citizens Founded by Former White Citizens' Councils Members to Continue Segregationist Agenda

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The Council of Conservative Citizens (CofCC) is founded in 1985 by former White Citizens’ Council members to continue the agendas of the earlier Councils, which had steadily lost members throughout the 1970s and 1980s as white Southerners’ attitudes towards desegregation began to change …

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