White-Citizens-Councils

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

1985-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 7/10

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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White Citizens' Councils Founded With Business Elite Backing to Resist Integration

1954-07-11 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 8/10

Two months after the Brown v. Board of Education ruling, Mississippi Circuit Court Judge Tom P. Brady delivers a strident speech opposing integration that is later expanded into a ninety-page tract titled “Black Monday” and distributed widely as a rallying cry for organized white …

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