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| | ipedia.com: American Civil Rights Movement Article |
 | | These tests were not generally applied to illiterate whites. | | | Following the compromise, many states adopted restrictive laws which enforced segregation of the races and the second-class status of African Americans. | | | They set high bail and paced trials slowly, forcing civil rights organizations to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars. |
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http://www.ipedia.com/american_civil_rights_movement.html
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| | LETTER TO THE CIVIL RIGHTS DEPARTMENT |
| | They should approach this matter on the basis that the WCC leadership is anti-labor and is using the trade unions to further their own political ambitions. | | | I am also told that this extends throughout the state and is beginning in other areas. | | | Enclosed is a copy of a letter I have sent to Boris Shiskin concerning the infiltration of trade union by the White Citizens Councils. |
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http://www.nathanielturner.com/lettercivilrightsdepart.htm
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| | Council of Conservative Citizens -- Extremism in America |
| | Its goals were to preserve the "natural rights" of racial separation and "the maintenance of our States' Rights to regulate public health, morals, marriage, education, peace and good order in the States, under the Constitution of the United States." | | | The group is a successor to the Citizens' Councils of America (originally configured as the White Citizens' Councils), an overtly racist organization formed in the 1950s in reaction to the Supreme Court's Brown v. | | | In August 1956, Citizens' Councils in 30 states came together to form the Citizens' Councils of America. |
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http://www.adl.org/learn/ext_us/CCCitizens.asp?xpicked=3&item=12
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| | [R-G] Council of Concerned Citizens [Magnolia Update] |
| | Note by Hunter Bear: Although we haven't heard much about the Council of Concerned Citizens lately, this is a good and timely update from Bill Minor, a much respected Southern journalist. | | | It clearly holds to the old Council slogan of "States Rights and Racial Integrity." The times may sadly be more conducive to it now than was the case a couple of years ago. | | | Recently, "Intelligence Report," published by the Birmingham-based Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors racial and anti-Semitic groups operating in the South, identified a list of 38 Southern public officials who have cozied up to the CCC, 23 of them present state lawmakers. |
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http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/rad-green/2004-November/016398.html
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| | Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement -- Alabama Literacy Test |
| | You had to swear that your answers to every single question were true under penalty of perjury. | | | Prior to passage of the federal Voting Rights Act in 1965, southern (and some western) states maintained elaborate voter registration procedures whose primary purpose was to deny the vote to those who were not white. | | | Throughout the deep South, white businesses, employers, banks, and landlords were organized into White Citizens Councils who imposed economic retaliation against non-whites who tried to vote. |
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http://www.crmvet.org/info/lithome.htm
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| | Archives - Trent Lott, Robert Barr and the Council of Conservative Citizens |
| | It also expresses the belief that only the biological heirs to the creators of European civilization will carry that civilization forward in a meaningful way'" (Thomas B. Edsall, The Washington Post, December 16, 1998). | | | "Gordon Lee Baum, the national chief executive of the council, headquartered in St. Louis, said Barr was given copies of the organization's magazine, the Citizen Informer, before his speech. | | | Trent Lott, Robert Barr and the Council of Conservative Citizens |
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http://loper.org/~george/archives/1998/Dec/2.html
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| | The Gestapo and KGB -- Anaheim, CA |
| | This “closed” briefing was closed, officials told the Register, because pending litigation was discussed. | | | White Citizen Councils of Mississippi used sheriffs and local cops to spy on people suspected of perfectly legal pro-civil rights activities, be they white (liberals, of course), or Black (Communists, of course). | | | When those techniques emerged in Mississippi in the Sixties in the form of White Citizen Councils, we thought we buried them again with enforcement of federal civil rights and liberties laws. |
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http://www.calnews.com/archives/contreras75.htm
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| | Think Progress » MD Governor: Racial Discrimination “Not My Business” |
| | Discrimination is the act of denying someone a privilege or a right based on race/religion/sexual orientation/creed/disability… etc. | | | Corporations and associations are not people (despite what the law says) therefore I don’t see how this is some an issue of personal liberty. | | | You still haven’t grasped the meaning of equity… Whites born in the states have a significantly better chance of success than their coloured counterparts. |
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http://thinkprogress.org/2005/07/06/md-discrimination
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| | lott719 |
| | Republicans and escaped conviction by a single vote. | | | Barr denied endorsing the CCC, a direct organizational descendant of the White Citizens | | | According to Edsall, Lord was formerly a "regional organizer" for the White Citizens Councils. |
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http://www.bartcop.com/lott719.htm
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| | LONG ROAD TO JUSTICE |
| | His friend and now U.S. District Judge Matthew Perry bailed him out of jail with other protesters more than once. | | | But for blacks and whites of a certain age, the memories of those segregated times, and the complex and rigid social code that underpinned the era, still can be summoned up. | | | Store clerks who waited on white customers first. |
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http://www.thestateonline.com/civilrights/day1/scene02.php
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| | The Family Research Council's Tony Perkins is a rising star in a crowded universe of evangelical Christian leaders |
| | Unfortunately, Perkins's signature was on the document authorizing the purchase of Duke's list. | | | Their job has no doubt been made easier by the fact that Republican Party officials have been enmeshed in a series of political scandals that even includes the state's Republican Governor, Bob Taft. | | | Perkins's dalliance with the racist Council of Conservative Citizens in the run-up to his campaign also illuminates the seamy underside of his political associations. |
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| | Commentary Magazine - The White Citizens Councils |
| | ...WHAT made it easy for the Councils to move into Clifford and the other towns was the fact that the Supreme Court decision found such communities unprepared... | | | ...For the time being the Council is content... | | | ...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... |
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http://www.commentarymagazine.com/Summaries/V22I4P7-1.htm
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| | ISAR - Lott, and Shadow of a Pro-White Group |
| | Gordon Baum, a St. Louis lawyer who is the group's chief executive officer, was a Midwest field organizer for the white Citizens Council. | | | The white Citizens Council, formed to battle the Supreme Court's 1954 school desegregation ruling, was once Mississippi's most powerful political machine, reaching its height in the early 1960's with the election of Gov. Ross Barnett. | | | The Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups, issued a report Dec. 18 contending that the council, which it described as having 15,000 members in 22 states was "the incarnation of the infamous white Citizens Councils," which helped enforce segregation in Mississippi and other Southern states in the 1950s and '60s." |
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http://www.ferris.edu/isar/Institut/CCC/nylott.htm
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| | ISAR - The Citizens Councils |
| | The Councils, as did the Klan, blossomed into full flower as a direct result of the Supreme Court's 17 May 1954 ruling on Brown vs. the Board of Education, the Court held that "separate but equal" school systems were outside the pale of constitutionality. | | | Robert B. Patteron, the founder of the Indianola Council, was appointed executive secretary. | | | Council strategy sessions, often held during lunchtime at a downtown club, were brief affairs. |
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http://www.ferris.edu/isar/Institut/cca/Thayer.htm
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| | PBS VIDEOdatabase Resource: Eyes on The Prize: Organizations |
| | The councils were formed in communities throughout the South in response to the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. | | | Board of Education decision mandating the racial integration of public schools. | | | Randolph himself was a major force in grass roots efforts on behalf of African Americans, and in 1963, at the age of seventy-four, he addressed the March on Washington as the movement's elder statesman. |
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http://pbsvideodb.pbs.org/resources/eyes/biosevents/org_1.html
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| | ZNet Commentary |
| | The CCC, formed in 1985, is the heir of the 1950& Citizens Councils of America — popularly known as the White Citizens Councils — that were created to resist the civil rights revolution in the South. | | | The vote against Muhammad was 97-0 in the Senate and 361-34 in the House. |
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http://www.zmag.org/ZSustainers/ZDaily/1999-04/april_14lusane.htm
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| | Charles Pickering background reveals no 'racial extremism' - The Clarion-Ledger |
| | Evidently some opponents of Pickering's elevation to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals believe it damaging evidence that Gartin, Pickering's one-time law partner, had served on the infamous state Sovereignty Commission. | | | Political history also records that Pickering in 1978 made an unwise race against then U.S. Rep. Thad Cochran for U.S. senator and the following year ran unsuccessfully as the Republican nominee against Democrat Bill Allain for Mississippi's attorney general. | | | As governor, Barnett yielded to Citizens Councils' advisers to defy federal court orders to admit one black student — James Meredith — to Ole Miss in 1962, a defiance which triggered a mini-Civil War on the tree-shrouded university campus. |
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http://orig.clarionledger.com/news/0302/23/lminor.html
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| | House Republicans block vote to condemn racist group |
| | The CCC is the successor organization to the White Citizens Councils, which served as the upper-class counterpart of the Ku Klux Klan, directing KKK violence against blacks and civil rights organizers during the 1950s and 1960s. | | | Most Democrats opposed the bill, demanding the right to vote on the original resolution condemning the Council of Conservative Citizens by name. | | | The virtual silence of the Democrats on the role of fascistic and racist forces in the Republican Party expressed the Democratic Party's complicity in concealing from the public the extent of the threat to democratic rights embodied in the impeachment conspiracy. |
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http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/mar1999/ccc-m25.shtml
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| | Ebony: Against the grain in the old south - personal narrative on segregation in the south - 50th Anniversary Issue |
| | Because of intimidation by the White Citizens' Councils and the inflammatory rhetoric of politicians, the federal courts' civil rights decisions had little impact on the lives of most Georgians. | | | These confrontations were more aggressive and aroused a tremendous response from young and more militant demonstrators, but the true turning point came in 1962 with the Supreme Court's "One Man, One Vote" ruling. | | | At that time, Georgia's top political leaders were promoting membership in White Citizens' Councils, whose stated purpose was to protect the rights of Whites by openly opposing court-ordered desegregation. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1077/is_n1_v51/ai_17531042
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| | Welcome to the Tucson Citizen |
| | Council members would be paid $29,760 if the measure is approved, up from $24,000 now. | | | Copyright © 2005 Tucson Citizen, All rights reserved. | | | It's a cliché to say you get what you pay for. |
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http://tucsoncitizen.com/index.php?page=opinion&story_id=090304b5_baldenegro
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| | SPLC attacks the Council of Conservative Citizens [Archive] - OD Board |
| | Founded in 1985 by Gordon Baum, a worker's compensation attorney and longtime white-power activist, the CCC rose from the ashes of the Citizens Councils of America (CCA), a coalition of white-supremacist groups formed throughout the South to defend school segregation after the Supreme Court outlawed it in Brown vs. Board of Education. | | | This spring, national officer Sam Dickson, an attorney, represented the Council at neo-Nazi David Duke's prison-release party in New Orleans. | | | Richard White (R) Senator, State Senate District 29 (Terry) |
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http://www.originaldissent.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-15907.html
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| | The Commonspace > December 2003 > Church and State |
| | The White Citizens' Councils were formed to promote segregationist policies and politicians during the Civil Rights Movement. | | | Relations were so rocky on the board between factions that the Federal Court overseeing desegregation threatened to take over the schools and essentially dismiss the board. | | | Holt took offense and wrote to me to express his displeasure in a way that only confirmed that he is, in fact, a white supremacist. |
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| | White supremacists turn white collar - Stormfront White Nationalist Community |
| | The report identified 338 white nationalist groups in 10 Midwestern states: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio and Wisconsin. | | | It is more focused on the mainstream and more concerned with issue advocacy than outright revolution, according to a two-year study released by The Center for New Community, a faith-based Chicago nonprofit group that monitors hate groups. |
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http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php?t=5991
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| | The Guardian |
| | That powerful members of the US state, including the Republican Senate Majority leader, are connected to and supportive of the CCC is a direct indication that fascist tendencies within the US state are increasing with alarming speed. | | | Edsall says the CCC "has developed strong political ties to the Republican Party in the South as well as to the fading conservative wing of the southern Democratic Party". | | | The CCC has named Lestor Maddox, the vicious white racist Governor of Georgia during the Civil Rights struggle, as the "Patriot of the Century". |
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| | Judge Pickering and the Citizens Councils |
| | next exhibit is interesting and illustrative of the forever interlocking relationships of Judge Pickering with his fellow members of the state senate judicial committee, the Sovereignty Commission and the Citizens Councils. | | | These documents will show that my premise, that in the sixties Laurel, Mississippi politics, the Pickerings, the Citizens Councils and the Sovereignty Commission were one and the same. | | | At the very least, I believe that the exhibits demonstrate circumstances and relationships that point to both knowledge of and participation in the activities of the Citizens Councils, including working against the interests of the federal government. |
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http://www.country-liberal-party.com/pages/Judge_Pickering.htm
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| | PAN: White Supremacist Leader Chosen to Head Advisory Board of Arizona Initiative : AZ IMC |
| | The Occidental Quarterly, first published in the fall of 2001 promotes the belief that "Immigration into the United States should be restricted to selected people of European ancestry," according to the Quarterly's statement of principles. | | | The report documents the full extent of Abernethy's connections to white supremacist organizations and alerts both public and civic leaders to the dangers of such an appointment. | | | The racist Council of Conservative Citizens is the modern incarnation of the Citizens Councils of America, more commonly known as the White Citizens Councils. |
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| | Uncle Toms |
| | A group of Mississippi Valley State University students protest the decision by then-President James Herbert White to expel all students who were involved in protesting civil injustice and curriculum issues (specifically the lack of a Black Studies program). | | | The students believed that the president was merely catering to the wishes of powerful whites. | | | Whatever the social standing, an "Uncle Tom's" main objective was to placate whites in the hopes of getting some personal reward for services rendered. |
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http://www.usm.edu/crdp/html/cd/uncle.htm
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| | Shaking hands with Duke's legacy of intolerance Jan 22, 1999 |
| | While fundraising in Washington recently, Duke addressed members of the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC), a reincarnation of the White Citizens Councils that fought to preserve segregation in the South during the civil rights movement. | | | Duke sold copies of his autobiography, My Awakening, which argues the scientific validity of racism, and promised that, if elected, he would crusade for the rights of white Christians. | | | Accordingly, preserving our nation means preserving the white race, through stringent immigration laws and the prevention of mixed marriages. |
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| | Washingtonpost.com: Conservative Group Accused Of Ties to White Supremacists |
| | The Southern Poverty Law Center yesterday charged that the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC), which has sponsored speeches by a number of prominent elected officials, is the "reincarnation of the infamous White Citizens Councils." | | | Southern Poverty Law Center report on the council | | | The council's Web site offers views on issues |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/daily/dec98/southern19.htm
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| | TIME CLASSROOM BOYCOTT |
| | She refused, was arrested and fined $10 under an Alabama law making it a misdemeanor for any person to disobey a bus driver's seating instructions. | | | But that was not the last of the Rosa Parks case: it has since been used to prove that economic reprisal, as advocated against Negroes by the white Citizens' Councils of the South, is a double-edged blade. | | | The demands: that Negroes be seated on a first-come, first-served basis without having to vacate their places for white passengers; that white bus drivers show more courtesy toward Negro passengers; that Negro drivers be employed on buses traveling mostly through Negro districts. |
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http://www.time.com/time/teach/boycott/covers_jan.html
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| | Southern Freedom Movement Links |
| | SNCC: What We Did by Julian Bond (Monthly Review) | | | Sharks in the Mainstream (Southern Poverty Law Center) | | | White Citizens Council (now known as "Council of Conservative Citizens) |
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| | The Heat of Summerton |
| | Other rural, majority-black towns and counties in South Carolina and neighboring states have seen much the same white flight from public schools, although white flight was especially pronounced in Summerton from the beginning. | | | Faced with poverty even in better times, with their involvement in the Briggs case they incurred the wrath of powerful local white leaders who could cost them their livelihoods. | | | That private school, called Clarendon Hall, almost exclusively enrolls white students to this day, while public schools in Summerton enroll African-Americans almost exclusively. |
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| | East Central Tennessee Chapter |
| | But, on some issues, such as forced busing, quotas and immigration, the Council does indeed speak out for white European-Americans, their civilization, faith and form of government, but we do not advocate or support the oppression or exploitation of other races or ethnic groups. | | | However, the real reason powerful Leftwing operations attack us is because the Council has been politically effective on the local, state, and national levels. | | | Because racism defines nothing, but instead generates dubious connotations, the C of CC refuses to be held hostage by what the word implies at any given moment. |
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| | Dan Wyman Books Antisemitica |
| | Named Corp: Communist Party of the United States of America. | | | He evidently emigrated to the United States and married an American citizen some time ago, but was rounded up and deported, illegally say Zundel supporters, by the Bush administration shortly after 9/11. | | | The bill was defeated in the Senate, however, through pressure brought by Communists and their ilk. |
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| | Commentary Magazine - Bombing in Miami |
| | ...But 125,000 votes were also cast for the second-runner, General Sumter Lowry, candidate of the White Citizens Councils... | | | ...The Klan and the White Citizens Councils must therefore be viewed as an integral part of the Southern "massive resistance" to desegregation rather than as isolated, dissident groups... | | | ...Indeed, the segregation-at-all-costs theme of the Klan and its city cousins, the White Citizens Councils, is so in tune with much of the prevailing respectable Southern political expression that one is sometimes hard put to it to distinguish their voice in the chorus... |
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| | Ann Waldron - Hodding Carter: The Reconstruction of a Racist |
| | A 1946 Pulitzer Prize-winner for editorial writing, Carter crusaded for racial equality, but hedged on condemning segregation; after the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. | | | Nor was his battle for racial justice in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s his first fight against heavy odds: in the early 1930s, as editor of a tiny newspaper in Hammond, Louisiana, he fought the Louisiana Kingfish, Huey Long, and his powerful machine. | | | As a youth sent off to college in Maine, he was an outspoken white supremacist; he began changing his mind only when he came back home to the South to live. |
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| | Brother Lott's Real Record |
| | A stitch in time nine years ago, when Lott was cavorting with offshoots of white citizens councils, might have save the Republicans from this moment. | | | Finally, with Lott's wistful praise of Strom Thurmond's segregationist presidential campaign of 1948 threatening to put a white sheet over the entire party, Republicans are making moves to drop Lott as majority leader of the Senate. | | | 1992: Told the Council of Conservative Citizens, which has ties back to the white citizens councils of segregation (known by African-Americans as the ''downtown Klan''): ''The people in this room stand for the right principles and the right philosophy. |
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| | American Experience The Murder of Emmett Till People & Events |
| | (White supremacist Byron de la Beckwith was convicted of murder in 1994, 31 years after assassinating black NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers.) | | | Wright said he saw a person in the car, possibly Carolyn, who helped identify Emmett. | | | Can't ever tell what they might do nowadays, they might change the Constitution." |
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| | FAIR Media Advisory: National Media Should Cover Racist Links of Prominent Elected Officials Like Rep. Bob Barr and ... |
| | The edition of Citizen's Informer featuring Rep. Barr's appearance before the CCC also includes a column written by Robert Patterson, founder of the Mississippi's White Citizens Council, describing how interracial marriage degrades white civilization. | | | Like Rep. Barr's language, the Council's rhetoric deploys terms like "real Americans." The Citizens Informer, for example, recently declared: "The Confederate Flag signifies the real American way of life...as it was and will be again." | | | According to the Village Voice, Kirk Lyons, a well-known white supremacist attorney and member of the White Patriot Party, was a featured guest at a 1994 Winston-Salem event sponsored by the CCC. |
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| | IndianolaBap |
| | Beside catfish and cotton, Indianola is known for Craig Claiborn, the food writer, B.B. King, the blues musician, and for the founding of the (White) Citizens Councils in 1954. | | | he Indianola Baptist Church, traditionally white, is a larger structure than the nearby Sunflower County Courthouse. | | | Places of Worship in the Mississippi Delta / Indianola,Mississippi |
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