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</font></div><div><p style="margin: 0px 76px 20px 70px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.55; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Liberty University-educated white supremacist is&nbsp;<a href="http://mtcowgirl.com/2016/05/09/montana-candidate-outraged-over-harriet-tubman-and-white-people-who-adopt-non-white-babies/" target="
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transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; box-shadow: rgb(221, 175, 175) 0px -4px 0px inset;">staff reporter</a>&nbsp;for the right-wing World Net Daily.</b></font></p><div class="rs_ad_block story_page_incontent_p2" style="margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center; max-width: 728px;"><div class="teadsNative1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></div><p style="margin: 0px 76px 20px 70px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.55; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="margin: 0px 76px 20px 70px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.55; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The 29-year-old Rose became enamored by European right-wing nationalism during the 2008 presidential campaign, saying he was&nbsp;<a href="http://dixienet.org/rights/taylor_rose_interview.php" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; opacity: 1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; box-shadow: rgb(221, 175, 175) 0px -4px 0px inset;">attracted to its focus</a>&nbsp;on cultural and identity issues instead of economics and politics.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 76px 20px 70px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.55; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Christianity will become the unifying religious force for the Right-Wing movements in Europe and the USA, for the only way to have a true revival of Occidental power both inwardly and outwardly is for the Occident to return to its historical foundations rooted in Christianity,” Rose said, referring to the West in opposition to the Oriental east. “Humanism is a failure and the only hope for a restoration of strength and liberty is a conviction in the inspiration of Christianity’s absolutes.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 76px 20px 70px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.55;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He wrote a 2012 book, “Return of the Right: How the Conservative Movement is Taking Back Western Civilization,” that is promoted by white nationalist groups such as the&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b style="">Council of Conservative Citizens&nbsp;</b>— the group that&nbsp;<a href="https://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/white-nationalist-who-inspired-dylann-roof-wants-you-to-know-hes-not-racist-because-he-likes-bb-king/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; opacity: 1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; box-shadow: rgb(221, 175, 175) 0px -4px 0px inset;">inspired racist killer Dylann Roof</a>.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 76px 20px 70px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.55;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Rose co-founded a Liberty campus chapter of YWC, a right-wing, anti-immigrant group that had branches at seven universities — including Towson University, whose chapter was founded by white nationalist Matthew Heimbach.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 76px 20px 70px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.55; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Heimbach, who recently&nbsp;<a href="https://www.rawstory.com/2016/03/white-nationalist-admits-shoving-black-woman-at-trump-rally-but-protesters-could-face-charges/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; opacity: 1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; box-shadow: rgb(221, 175, 175) 0px -4px 0px inset;">made national news</a>&nbsp;for shoving a black woman at a Donald Trump rally, has gone on to become one of the nation’s most prominent young white supremacists.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 76px 20px 70px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.55; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Rose is running against state Rep. Zac Perry, a moderate Democrat who recently defeated Tea Party Republican Jerry O’Neil, and has drawn the support of several prominent Republicans.</b></font></p><div class="rs_ad_block story_page_incontent_p6" style="margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center; max-width: 728px;" /><p style="margin: 0px 76px 20px 70px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.55; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="margin: 0px 76px 20px 70px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.55; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.dailyinterlake.com/news/local_montana/local-campaign-spending-ramps-up-for-primary/article_9341090e-13c3-11e6-b64a-77466a69baf5.html" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; opacity: 1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; box-shadow: rgb(221, 175, 175) 0px -4px 0px inset;">As of last week</a>, Rose had raised $3,805 and spent $1,511, while the incumbent Perry has raised $4,587 and spent $490.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 76px 20px 70px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.55; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Greg Gianforte, the Republican gubernatorial candidate, gave Rose $170 in campaign contributions, and he got the same amount from GOP state Sen. Mark Blasdel.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 76px 20px 70px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.55; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He also received $100 from GOP state rep. Greg Hertz.</font></p><div class="rs_ad_block story_page_incontent_p10" style="margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center; max-width: 728px;"><div id="incontentp10_ll_target" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></div><p style="margin: 0px 76px 20px 70px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.55; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="margin: 0px 76px 20px 70px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.55;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rose’s campaign website claims he managed U.S. Sen. Steve Daines’ (R-MT) “campaign in the Northwest,” and he also claims he worked for state Sen. Jennifer Fielder, the vice-chair of the Montana Republican Party and CEO of the</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;Koch-linked&nbsp;<a href="https://www.rawstory.com/2016/02/koch-backed-lobbying-group-is-spreading-ammon-bundys-lies-misspellings-and-all/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; opacity: 1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; box-shadow: rgb(221, 175, 175) 0px -4px 0px inset;">American Lands Council</a>.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 76px 20px 70px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.55; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He’s among a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2015/10/19/meet-new-wave-extremists-gearing-2016-elections" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; opacity: 1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; box-shadow: rgb(221, 175, 175) 0px -4px 0px inset;">handful of right-wing extremist</a>&nbsp;candidates&nbsp;<a href="https://www.rawstory.com/2016/05/this-trump-loving-kentucky-republican-shares-some-troubling-views-with-racist-gunman-dylann-roof/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; opacity: 1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; box-shadow: rgb(221, 175, 175) 0px -4px 0px inset;">campaigning this year</a>, although not all of them boast the same connections to the GOP establishment.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 76px 20px 70px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.55; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Watch this interview with Rose posted online by&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efoBTg9j3-s" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; opacity: 1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; box-shadow: rgb(221, 175, 175) 0px -4px 0px inset;">Ryan Girdusky</a>:</font></span></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><div id="mw-content-text" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" lang="en"><div class="mw-parser-output"><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Citizens' Councils</b>&nbsp;(also referred to as&nbsp;<b>White Citizens' Councils</b>) were an associated network of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_supremacy" title="White supremacy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">white supremacist</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_right" class="mw-redirect" title="Extreme right" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">extreme right</a><sup id="cite_ref-FOIA_1-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#cite_note-FOIA-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup>&nbsp;organizations in the United States, concentrated in the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_United_States" title="Southern United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">South</a>. The first was formed on July 11, 1954.<sup id="cite_ref-usm.edu_2-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#cite_note-usm.edu-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup>&nbsp;After 1956, it was known as the&nbsp;<b>Citizens' Councils of America</b>. With about 60,000 members across the United States,<sup id="cite_ref-adl_3-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#cite_note-adl-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup>&nbsp;mostly in the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_United_States" title="Southern United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">South</a>, the groups were founded primarily to oppose&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_integration" title="Racial integration" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">racial integration</a>&nbsp;of schools, but they also opposed voter registration efforts and integration of public facilities during the 1950s and 1960s. Members used intimidation tactics including economic boycotts, firing people from jobs, propaganda, and violence against citizens and civil-rights activists.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By the 1970s, following passage of federal civil rights legislation in the mid-1960s and enforcement of constitutional rights by the federal government, the influence of the Councils had waned considerably yet remained an institutional basis for the majority of white residents in Mississippi. The successor organization to the White Citizens' Councils is the St. Louis-based&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Conservative_Citizens" title="Council of Conservative Citizens" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Council of Conservative Citizens</a>, founded in 1985.<sup id="cite_ref-adl_3-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#cite_note-adl-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup>&nbsp;Republican politician and past Senate Majority Leader&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Lott" title="Trent Lott" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Trent Lott</a>&nbsp;of Mississippi was allegedly a member<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a></sup>&nbsp;while North Carolina Senator&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Helms" title="Jesse Helms" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jesse Helms</a>&nbsp;and Georgia Congressman&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Barr" title="Bob Barr" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bob Barr</a>&nbsp;were both strong supporters of the Council of Conservative Citizens;&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Duke" title="David Duke" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">David Duke</a>&nbsp;also spoke at a fund raising event, while&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Buchanan" class="mw-redirect" title="Patrick Buchanan" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Patrick Buchanan</a>'s campaign manager was linked to both Duke and the Council.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 1996, a Charleston, SC, drive-by shooting by Klan members of three African American males occurred after a Council rally;&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylann_Roof" title="Dylann Roof" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Dylann Roof</a>, the perpetrator responsible for the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charleston_church_shooting" title="Charleston church shooting" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">murder of nine Emanuel AME church members in Charleston</a>&nbsp;in 2015, espoused Council of Conservative Citizens rhetoric in a manifesto.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a></sup></font></p><div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1;"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="direction: ltr; position: absolute; opacity: 0; display: none;" /><div class="toctitle" dir="ltr" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;" lang="en"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><h2 style="background: none; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: 0px; display: inline; line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Contents</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></h2><span class="toctogglespan" style=""><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox" style="cursor: pointer;" /></span></div><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#History" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">History</span></font></a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#Birth_and_development" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">1.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Birth and development</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#Economic_retaliation_and_violence" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">1.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Economic retaliation and violence</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#Political_influence" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">1.3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Political influence</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#School_desegregation_and_the_demise_of_the_councils" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">1.4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">School desegregation and the demise of the councils</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#See_also" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">See also</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">References</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#Further_reading" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Further reading</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#External_links" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">5</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">External links</span></font></a></li></ul></div><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="History">History</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Citizens%27_Councils&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><h3 style="background: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Birth_and_development">Birth and development</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Citizens%27_Councils&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Birth and development" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 1954 the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Supreme_Court" class="mw-redirect" title="US Supreme Court" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">US Supreme Court</a>&nbsp;ruled in&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_vs.Board_of_Education" class="mw-redirect" title="Brown vs. Board of Education" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Brown vs. Board of Education</a></i>&nbsp;that segregation of public schools was unconstitutional. Some sources claim that the White Citizens' Council first started after this in&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwood,Mississippi" title="Greenwood, Mississippi" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Greenwood, Mississippi</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-orig.jacksonsun.com_7-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#cite_note-orig.jacksonsun.com-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a></sup>&nbsp;Others say that it originated in&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indianola,Mississippi" title="Indianola, Mississippi" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Indianola, Mississippi</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a></sup>&nbsp;The recognized leader was&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_B.Patterson" title="Robert B. Patterson" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Robert B. Patterson</a>&nbsp;of Indianola,<sup id="cite_ref-usm.edu_2-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#cite_note-usm.edu-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a></sup>&nbsp;a&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantations_in_the_American_South" title="Plantations in the American South" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">plantation</a>&nbsp;manager and a former captain of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_State_University" title="Mississippi State University" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Mississippi State University</a>football team. Additional chapters spread to other southern towns. At this time, most southern states enforced racial segregation of all public facilities; in places where local laws did not require segregation,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow" class="mw-redirect" title="Jim Crow" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jim Crow</a>harassment enforced it. After preliminary post-Civil War Reconstruction efforts led by blacks and poorer whites, the subsequent period from 1890 to 1908 led to&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disfranchisement_after_Reconstruction_era" class="mw-redirect" title="Disfranchisement after Reconstruction era" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">disfranchisement of most blacks</a>&nbsp;through the passing of new constitutions and other laws making voter registration and elections more difficult, and led to the founding of the Ku Klux Klan. Despite civil rights organizations winning some legal challenges, most blacks in the 1950s were still retaliated against for registering to vote, as well as for riding buses and sitting at lunch counters,<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a></sup>&nbsp;in the South and remained so even after passage of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_Rights_Act_of_1965" title="Voting Rights Act of 1965" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Voting Rights Act of 1965</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Patterson and his followers formed the White Citizens Council in part to respond with economic retaliation and violence to increased civil rights activism. The&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_Council_of_Negro_Leadership" title="Regional Council of Negro Leadership" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Regional Council of Negro Leadership</a>&nbsp;(RCNL), a&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grassroots" title="Grassroots" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">grassroots</a>civil rights organization founded in 1951 by&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.R.M.Howard" title="T. R. M. Howard" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">T. R. M. Howard</a>&nbsp;of the all-black town&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mound_Bayou,Mississippi" title="Mound Bayou, Mississippi" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Mound Bayou, Mississippi</a>&nbsp;was also 40 miles from Indianola.&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Henry" title="Aaron Henry" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Aaron Henry</a>, a later official in the RCNL and the future head of the Mississippi&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Association_for_the_Advancement_of_Colored_People" class="mw-redirect" title="National Association for the Advancement of Colored People" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">NAACP</a><sup id="cite_ref-BeitoBeito2009_11-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#cite_note-BeitoBeito2009-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a></sup>&nbsp;had met Patterson during their childhood.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Within a few months, the White Citizens Council had attracted similar racist members; 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, including business, law enforcement, civic and sometimes religious leaders, many of whom were members. Member businesses, such as newspaper publishing, legal representation, medical service, were known for collectively acting against registered voters whose names were first published in local papers before additional retaliatory actions were taken against them.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_12-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#cite_note-:0-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[12]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sometimes they were directly involved in voter purges to remove Black voters.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_13-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#cite_note-:1-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[13]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="background: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; 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line-height: 1.4em; padding: 3px; text-align: left;"><div class="magnify" style="float: right; margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Citizens.council.june.1961.silver.lining.png" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" viewbox="%220" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" id="%22smallbox%22" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%23000%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" d="%22M-1.499" h10.99v7.919h-10.99z="h10.99v7.919h-10.99z" e="E" h5.943v4.904h-5.943z="h5.943v4.904h-5.943z" c="C" g="g" display="display" block="block" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" overflow="overflow" user-select="user-select" none="none" hidden="hidden" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data" /></div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Citizens.council.june.1961.silver.lining.png" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" viewbox="%220" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" id="%22smallbox%22" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%23000%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" d="%22M-1.499" h10.99v7.919h-10.99z="h10.99v7.919h-10.99z" e="E" h5.943v4.904h-5.943z="h5.943v4.904h-5.943z" c="C" g="g" display="display" block="block" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" overflow="overflow" user-select="user-select" none="none" hidden="hidden" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Clipping from&nbsp;<i>Citizens' Council</i>newspaper, June 1961</font></a></div></div></div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Citizens.council.june.1961.silver.lining.png" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" viewbox="%220" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" id="%22smallbox%22" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%23000%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" d="%22M-1.499" h10.99v7.919h-10.99z="h10.99v7.919h-10.99z" e="E" h5.943v4.904h-5.943z="h5.943v4.904h-5.943z" c="C" g="g" display="display" block="block" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" overflow="overflow" user-select="user-select" none="none" hidden="hidden" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Unlike the&nbsp;</font></a><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan" title="Ku Klux Klan" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ku Klux Klan</a>&nbsp;but working in unison, the White Citizens Council met openly, and was seen superficially as "pursuing the agenda of the Klan with the demeanor of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_Club" class="mw-redirect" title="Rotary Club" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Rotary Club</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-Payne2007_14-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#cite_note-Payne2007-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[14]</a></sup>&nbsp;Although the White Citizens Council publicly eschewed the use of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence" title="Violence" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">violence</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-usm.edu_2-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#cite_note-usm.edu-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup>&nbsp;the economic and political tactics used against registered voters and activists embraced institutional violence. The White Citizens Council members collaborated to threaten jobs, causing people to be fired or evicted from rental homes; they boycotted businesses, ensured that activists could not get loans, among other tactics.<sup id="cite_ref-orig.jacksonsun.com_7-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#cite_note-orig.jacksonsun.com-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:0_12-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#cite_note-:0-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[12]</a></sup>&nbsp;As historian&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_M.Payne" title="Charles M. Payne" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Charles Payne</a>&nbsp;notes, "Despite the official disclaimers, violence often followed in the wake of Council intimidation campaigns."<sup id="cite_ref-Payne2007_14-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#cite_note-Payne2007-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[14]</a></sup>&nbsp;Occasionally some Councils directly incited violence, such as&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_in_the_United_States" title="Lynching in the United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">lynchings</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting" title="Shooting" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">shootings</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapes" class="mw-redirect" title="Rapes" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">rapes</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arson" title="Arson" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">arson</a>, as did&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leander_Perez" title="Leander Perez" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Leander Perez</a>&nbsp;during the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans_school_desegregation_crisis" title="New Orleans school desegregation crisis" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">New Orleans school desegregation crisis</a>. In some cases, Council members were directly involved in acts of violence, such as&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nat_King_Cole" title="Nat King Cole" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Nat King Cole</a>&nbsp;being assaulted in&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham,Alabama" title="Birmingham, Alabama" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Birmingham</a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_De_La_Beckwith" title="Byron De La Beckwith" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Byron De La Beckwith</a>&nbsp;murdering&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medgar_Evers" title="Medgar Evers" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Medgar Evers</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For instance, in&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery,Alabama" title="Montgomery, Alabama" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Montgomery, Alabama</a>, during the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery_Bus_Boycott" class="mw-redirect" title="Montgomery Bus Boycott" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Montgomery Bus Boycott</a>, at which Senator&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Eastland" title="James Eastland" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">James Eastland</a>&nbsp;"ranted against the NAACP"<sup id="cite_ref-:2_15-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#cite_note-:2-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[15]</a></sup>&nbsp;at a large openly held Council meeting in the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrett_Coliseum" title="Garrett Coliseum" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Garrett Coliseum</a>, a mimeographed flyer publicly espousing extreme racial White Citizens Council and Ku Klux Klan rhetoric was distributed, parodying the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence" title="United States Declaration of Independence" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Declaration of Independence</a>&nbsp;and saying:</font></p><blockquote style="overflow: hidden; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 40px;"><blockquote style="overflow: hidden; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 40px;"><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary to&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_genocide" title="Black genocide" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">abolish the Negro race</a>, proper methods should be used. Among these are&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun" title="Gun" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">guns</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bow_and_arrow" title="Bow and arrow" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">bows</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow" title="Arrow" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">arrows</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slingshot" title="Slingshot" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">sling shots</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knife" title="Knife" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">knives</a>.
We hold these truths to be self-evident that all whites are created equal with certain rights; among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of dead&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigger" title="Nigger" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">niggers</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_15-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#cite_note-:2-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[15]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[16]</a></sup></font></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Citizens' Councils used economic tactics against&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American" class="mw-redirect" title="African American" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">African Americans</a>&nbsp;whom they considered as supportive of desegregation and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_rights_in_the_United_States" title="Voting rights in the United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">voting rights</a>, or for belonging to the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Association_for_the_Advancement_of_Colored_People" class="mw-redirect" title="National Association for the Advancement of Colored People" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">NAACP</a>, or even suspected of being activists; the tactics included "calling in" the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortgages" class="mw-redirect" title="Mortgages" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">mortgages</a>&nbsp;of black citizens, denying loans and business credit, pressing employers to fire certain people, and boycotting black-owned businesses.<sup id="cite_ref-Dittmer1995_17-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#cite_note-Dittmer1995-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[17]</a></sup>&nbsp;In some cities, the Councils published lists of names of NAACP supporters and signers of anti-segregation petitions in local newspapers in order to encourage economic retaliation.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#cite_note-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[18]</a></sup>&nbsp;For instance, in&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yazoo_City,
Mississippi" title="Yazoo City, Mississippi" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Yazoo City, Mississippi</a>&nbsp;in 1955, the Citizens' Council published in the local paper the names of 53 signers of a petition for school integration. Soon afterward, the petitioners lost their jobs and had their credit cut off.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#cite_note-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[19]</a></sup>&nbsp;As Charles Payne puts it, the Councils operated by "unleashing a wave of economic reprisals against anyone, Black or white, seen as a threat to the status quo."<sup id="cite_ref-Payne2007_14-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#cite_note-Payne2007-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[14]</a></sup>&nbsp;Their targets included black professionals such as teachers, as well as farmers, high school and college students, shop owners, and housewives.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_12-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#cite_note-:0-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[12]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medgar_Evers" title="Medgar Evers" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Medgar Evers</a>' first work for the NAACP on a national level involved interviewing Mississippians who had been intimidated by the White Citizens' Councils and preparing&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affidavit" title="Affidavit" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">affidavits</a>&nbsp;for use as evidence against the Councils if necessary.<sup id="cite_ref-Vollers1995_20-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#cite_note-Vollers1995-20" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[20]</a></sup>&nbsp;Evers was assassinated in 1963 by&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_De_La_Beckwith" title="Byron De La Beckwith" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Byron De La Beckwith</a>, a member of the White Citizens' Council as well as the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan" title="Ku Klux Klan" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ku Klux Klan</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#cite_note-21" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[21]</a></sup>&nbsp;The Citizens' Council paid his legal expenses in his two trials in 1964, which both resulted in hung juries.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#cite_note-22" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[22]</a></sup>&nbsp;In 1994, Beckwith was tried by the state of Mississippi based on new evidence, in part revealed by a lengthy investigation by the&nbsp;<i>Jackson Clarion Ledger;</i>&nbsp;he was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT_23-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#cite_note-NYT-23" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[23]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="background: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Political_influence">Political influence</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Citizens%27_Councils&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Political influence" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><div class="thumb tright" style="clear: right; float: right; margin: 0.5em 0px 1.3em 1.4em; width: auto; background-color: transparent;"><div class="thumbinner" style="min-width: 100px; border: 1px solid rgb(200, 204, 209); padding: 3px; background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); text-align: center; overflow: hidden; width: 142px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Joe_d_waggonner_jr.jpg" class="image" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Joe_d_waggonner_jr.jpg/140px-Joe_d_waggonner_jr.jpg" class="thumbimage" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Joe_d_waggonner_jr.jpg/210px-Joe_d_waggonner_jr.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/Joe_d_waggonner_jr.jpg 2x" data-file-width="221" data-file-height="376" style="border: 1px solid rgb(200, 204, 209); vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" width="140" height="238" /></font></a><div class="thumbcaption" style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 3px; text-align: left;"><div class="magnify" style="float: right; margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Joe_d_waggonner_jr.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" viewbox="%220" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" id="%22smallbox%22" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%23000%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" d="%22M-1.499" h10.99v7.919h-10.99z="h10.99v7.919h-10.99z" e="E" h5.943v4.904h-5.943z="h5.943v4.904h-5.943z" c="C" g="g" display="display" block="block" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" overflow="overflow" user-select="user-select" none="none" hidden="hidden" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data" /></div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Joe_d_waggonner_jr.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" viewbox="%220" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" id="%22smallbox%22" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%23000%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" d="%22M-1.499" h10.99v7.919h-10.99z="h10.99v7.919h-10.99z" e="E" h5.943v4.904h-5.943z="h5.943v4.904h-5.943z" c="C" g="g" display="display" block="block" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" overflow="overflow" user-select="user-select" none="none" hidden="hidden" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Joe D. Waggonner, Jr.</font></a></div></div></div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Joe_d_waggonner_jr.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" viewbox="%220" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" id="%22smallbox%22" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%23000%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" d="%22M-1.499" h10.99v7.919h-10.99z="h10.99v7.919h-10.99z" e="E" h5.943v4.904h-5.943z="h5.943v4.904h-5.943z" c="C" g="g" display="display" block="block" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" overflow="overflow" user-select="user-select" none="none" hidden="hidden" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Many leading state and local politicians were members of the Councils; in some states, this gave the organization immense influence over state legislatures. In Mississippi, the&nbsp;</font></a><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_State_Sovereignty_Commission" title="Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">State Sovereignty Commission</a>&nbsp;funded the Citizens' Councils, in some years providing as much as $50,000. This state agency, funded by the taxes paid by all citizens, also shared information with the Councils that it had collected through investigation and surveillance of integration activists.<sup id="cite_ref-Vollers1995-1_24-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#cite_note-Vollers1995-1-24" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[24]</a></sup>&nbsp;For example, Dr. M. Ney Williams was both a director of the Citizens' Council and an adviser to governor&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Barnett" title="Ross Barnett" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ross Barnett</a>&nbsp;of Mississippi.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#cite_note-25" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[25]</a></sup>&nbsp;Barnett was a member of the Council, as was Jackson mayor&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_C.Thompson" title="Allen C. Thompson" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Allen C. Thompson</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#cite_note-26" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[26]</a></sup>&nbsp;In 1955, in the midst of the bus boycott, all three members of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery,Alabama" title="Montgomery, Alabama" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Montgomery</a>&nbsp;city commission in Alabama announced on television that they had joined the Citizens' Council.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#cite_note-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[27]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Numan Bartley wrote, "In&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana" title="Louisiana" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Louisiana</a>&nbsp;the Citizens' Council organization began as (and to a large extent remained) a projection of the Joint Legislative Committee to Maintain Segregation."<sup id="cite_ref-Bartley1999_28-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#cite_note-Bartley1999-28" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[28]</a></sup>&nbsp;In Louisiana, leaders of the original Citizens' Council included&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Senate" class="mw-redirect" title="Louisiana Senate" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">State Senator</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_of_Louisiana" class="mw-redirect" title="Governor of Louisiana" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">gubernatorial</a>&nbsp;candidate&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_M.Rainach" title="William M. Rainach" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">William M. Rainach</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">U.S. Representative</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Waggonner" title="Joe Waggonner" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Joe D. Waggonner, Jr.</a>, the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publisher" class="mw-redirect" title="Publisher" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">publisher</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Touchstone" title="Ned Touchstone" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ned Touchstone</a>, and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge" title="Judge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Judge</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leander_Perez" title="Leander Perez" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Leander Perez</a>, considered the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_boss" title="Political boss" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">political boss</a>&nbsp;of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaquemines_Parish,Louisiana" title="Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Plaquemines</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.Bernard_Parish,Louisiana" title="St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">St. Bernard</a>&nbsp;parishes near&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans" title="New Orleans" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">New Orleans</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#cite_note-29" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[29]</a></sup>&nbsp;After he left the editorship of the&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shreveport_Journal" title="Shreveport Journal" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Shreveport Journal</a></i>&nbsp;in 1971,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Shannon(journalist)" title="George Shannon (journalist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">George W. Shannon</a>&nbsp;relocated to&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson,Mississippi" title="Jackson, Mississippi" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jackson</a>, Mississippi, to work on&nbsp;<i>The Citizen</i>, a monthly magazine of the Citizens' Council.&nbsp;<i>The Citizen</i>&nbsp;halted publication in January 1979, by which time Shannon had returned to&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shreveport,Louisiana" title="Shreveport, Louisiana" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Shreveport</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#cite_note-30" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[30]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On July 16, 1956, "under pressure from the White Citizens Councils,"<sup id="cite_ref-bagdikian_31-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#cite_note-bagdikian-31" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[31]</a></sup>&nbsp;the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_State_Legislature" title="Louisiana State Legislature" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Louisiana State Legislature</a>&nbsp;passed a law mandating racial segregation in nearly every aspect of public life; much of the segregation already existed under&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow" class="mw-redirect" title="Jim Crow" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jim Crow</a>&nbsp;custom. The bill was signed into law by governor&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Long" title="Earl Long" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Earl Long</a>&nbsp;on July 16, 1956 and went into effect on October 15, 1956. The act read, in part:</font></p><blockquote style="overflow: hidden; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 40px;"><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">An Act to prohibit all interracial&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing" class="mw-redirect" title="Dancing" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">dancing</a>, social functions,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entertainment" title="Entertainment" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">entertainments</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletic_training" title="Athletic training" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">athletic training</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game" title="Game" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">games</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport" title="Sport" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">sports</a>, or contests and other such activities; to provide for separate seating and other facilities for white and negroes [lower case in original]&nbsp;... That all persons, firms, and corporations are prohibited from sponsoring, arranging, participating in or permitting on premises under their control&nbsp;... such activities involving personal and social contact in which the participants are members of the white and negro races&nbsp;... That white persons are prohibited from sitting in or using any part of seating arrangements and sanitary or other facilities set apart for members of the negro race. That negro persons are prohibited from sitting in or using any part of seating arrangements and sanitary or other facilities set apart for white persons.<sup id="cite_ref-bagdikian_31-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#cite_note-bagdikian-31" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[31]</a></sup></font></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Another disposition they managed to pass was a public challenge law allowing two voters to challenge another voter to see if he was lawfully registered, disposition they used to purge the rolls of Black voters, in one parish,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bienville_Parish,Louisiana" title="Bienville Parish, Louisiana" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bienville</a>, 95% of Black voters were purged.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_13-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#cite_note-:1-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[13]</a></sup>&nbsp;Similarly, they were involved in handing to the registers pamphlets such as&nbsp;<i>Voter Qualification Laws in Louisiana: The Key to Victory in the Segregation Struggle</i>&nbsp;and making them participate to mandatory semonaries about preventing Black registration and purging Black voters.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#cite_note-32" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[32]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Major&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_media" title="News media" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">media outlets</a>&nbsp;observed the support&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Wallace" title="George Wallace" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">George Wallace</a>&nbsp;received from groups such as White Citizens' Councils. It has been noted that members of such groups had permeated the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Wallace_presidential_campaign,1968" title="George Wallace presidential campaign, 1968" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Wallace campaign by 1968</a>&nbsp;and, while Wallace did not openly seek their support, nor did he refuse it.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#cite_note-33" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[33]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="background: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="School_desegregation_and_the_demise_of_the_councils">School desegregation and the demise of the councils</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Citizens%27_Councils&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: School desegregation and the demise of the councils" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><div class="thumb tright" style="clear: right; float: right; margin: 0.5em 0px 1.3em 1.4em; width: auto; background-color: transparent;"><div class="thumbinner noresize" style="min-width: 100px; border: 1px solid rgb(200, 204, 209); padding: 3px; background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); text-align: center; overflow: hidden;"><div class="thumbimage" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(200, 204, 209);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Council_School_Advert(Clarion_Ledger_Sept_6_1968_page_4).png" class="image" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><img alt="Council School Advert (Clarion Ledger Sept 6 1968 page 4).png" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/85/Council_School_Advert%28Clarion_Ledger_Sept_6_1968_page_4%29.png/400px-Council_School_Advert%28Clarion_Ledger_Sept_6_1968_page_4%29.png" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/85/Council_School_Advert%28Clarion_Ledger_Sept_6_1968_page_4%29.png/600px-Council_School_Advert%28Clarion_Ledger_Sept_6_1968_page_4%29.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/85/Council_School_Advert%28Clarion_Ledger_Sept_6_1968_page_4%29.png/800px-Council_School_Advert%28Clarion_Ledger_Sept_6_1968_page_4%29.png 2x" data-file-width="1001" data-file-height="815" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="400" height="326" /></font></a></div><div class="thumbcaption" style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 3px; text-align: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A 1968 advertisement for&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson,Mississippi_metropolitan_area" class="mw-redirect" title="Jackson, Mississippi metropolitan area" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jackson area</a>&nbsp;schools operated by the Council</font></div></div></div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Throughout the last half of the 1950s, the White Citizens' Councils produced racist children's books that taught that&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven" title="Heaven" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">heaven</a>&nbsp;(in the Christian conception) is segregated.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#cite_note-34" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[34]</a></sup>&nbsp;The White Citizens' Council in Mississippi prevented school integration until 1964.<sup id="cite_ref-barbour_35-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#cite_note-barbour-35" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[35]</a></sup>&nbsp;As&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_desegregation" class="mw-redirect" title="School desegregation" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">school desegregation</a>increased in some parts of the South, in some communities the White Citizens' Council sponsored "council schools," private institutions set up for white children, as these were beyond the reach of the ruling on public schools.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#cite_note-36" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[36]</a></sup>&nbsp;Many of these private "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segregation_academies" class="mw-redirect" title="Segregation academies" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">segregation academies</a>" continue to operate today.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By the 1970s, as white Southerners' attitudes toward desegregation began to change following passage of federal civil rights legislation and enforcement of integration and voting rights in the 1960s, the activities of the White Citizens' Councils began to wane. The&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Conservative_Citizens" title="Council of Conservative Citizens" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Council of Conservative Citizens</a>, founded by former White Citizens' Council members,<sup id="cite_ref-adl_3-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#cite_note-adl-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup>&nbsp;continued the agendas of the earlier Councils.</font></p><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="See_also">See also</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Citizens%27_Councils&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: See also" style="text-decoration-line: none; 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The University of California – via Database.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Berkely+Center+for+Right+Wing+Studies&rft.atitle=FINDING+AID+%E2%80%93+FBI+AND+OTHER+FILES+%28Ernie+Lazar+Collection%29&rft.date=2016-08&rft.aulast=Lazar&rft.aufirst=Ernie&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fcrws.berkeley.edu%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2F...%2FFINDING%2520AID%252008-23-16.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACitizens%27+Councils" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-usm.edu-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;">&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#cite_ref-usm.edu_2-0" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:</span><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#cite_ref-usm.edu_2-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#cite_ref-usm.edu_2-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.usm.edu/crdp/html/cd/citizens.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"July 11, 1954"</a>.&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Southern_Mississippi" title="University of Southern Mississippi" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">University of Southern Mississippi</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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The Jackson Sun<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved&nbsp;<span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;">September 8,</span>&nbsp;2011</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=White+Citizens%27+Councils+aimed+to+maintain+%27Southern+way+of+life%27&rft.pub=The+Jackson+Sun&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Forig.jacksonsun.com%2Fcivilrights%2Fsec2_citizencouncil.shtml&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACitizens%27+Councils" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#cite_ref-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span></a></b></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation book" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Roberts(journalist)" title="Gene Roberts (journalist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Roberts, Gene</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Klibanoff" title="Hank Klibanoff" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Hank Klibanoff</a>&nbsp;(2006).&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Race_Beat" title="The Race Beat" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation</a></i>. New York:&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_A.Knopf" title="Alfred A. Knopf" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Alfred A. Knopf</a>. p.&nbsp;66.&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" title="International Standard Book Number" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">ISBN</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-679-40381-7" title="Special:BookSources/0-679-40381-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">0-679-40381-7</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Race+Beat%3A+The+Press%2C+the+Civil+Rights+Struggle%2C+and+the+Awakening+of+a+Nation&rft.place=New+York&rft.pages=66&rft.pub=Alfred+A.+Knopf&rft.date=2006&rft.isbn=0-679-40381-7&rft.au=Roberts%2C+Gene+and+Hank+Klibanoff&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACitizens%27+Councils" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#cite_ref-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span></a></b></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Cobb, James C. (December 23, 2010).&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://hnn.us/articles/134814.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"The Real Story of the White Citizens' Council"</a>. History News Network<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved&nbsp;<span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;">September 9,</span>&nbsp;2011</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=The+Real+Story+of+the+White+Citizens%27+Council&rft.pub=History+News+Network&rft.date=2010-12-23&rft.aulast=Cobb&rft.aufirst=James+C.&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fhnn.us%2Farticles%2F134814.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACitizens%27+Councils" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#cite_ref-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span></a></b></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_E.Cobb_Jr." title="Charles E. Cobb Jr." style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Charles E. Cobb Jr.</a>&nbsp;"This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed."</span></font></li><li id="cite_note-BeitoBeito2009-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#cite_ref-BeitoBeito2009_11-0" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span></a></b></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation book" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_T.Beito" title="David T. Beito" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Beito, David T.</a>;&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Royster_Beito" title="Linda Royster Beito" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Beito, Linda Royster</a>&nbsp;(April 8, 2009).&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=dS4eA77qau0C" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><i>Black maverick: T.R.M. Howard's fight for civil rights and economic power</i></a>. University of Illinois Press. pp.&nbsp;95–97.&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" title="International Standard Book Number" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">ISBN</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-252-03420-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-252-03420-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">978-0-252-03420-6</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved&nbsp;<span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;">September 8,</span>&nbsp;2011</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Black+maverick%3A+T.R.M.+Howard%27s+fight+for+civil+rights+and+economic+power&rft.pages=95-97&rft.pub=University+of+Illinois+Press&rft.date=2009-04-08&rft.isbn=978-0-252-03420-6&rft.aulast=Beito&rft.aufirst=David+T.&rft.au=Beito%2C+Linda+Royster&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DdS4eA77qau0C&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACitizens%27+Councils" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-:0-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;">&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#cite_ref-:0_12-0" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:</span><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#cite_ref-:0_12-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#cite_ref-:0_12-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation news" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Halberstam, David (October 1, 1956).&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/the-white-citizens-councilsrespectable-means-for-unrespectable-ends/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"The White Citizens Councils:Respectable Means for Unrespectable Ends"</a>.&nbsp;<i>Commentary Magazine</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved&nbsp;<span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;">2018-01-03</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Commentary+Magazine&rft.atitle=The+White+Citizens+Councils%3ARespectable+Means+for+Unrespectable+Ends&rft.date=1956-10-01&rft.aulast=Halberstam&rft.aufirst=David&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.commentarymagazine.com%2Farticles%2Fthe-white-citizens-councilsrespectable-means-for-unrespectable-ends%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACitizens%27+Councils" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-:1-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;">&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#cite_ref-:1_13-0" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:</span><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#cite_ref-:1_13-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation news" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/196/908/1690500/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"United States v. Association of Citizens Councils of La., 196 F. Supp. 908 (W.D. La. 1961)"</a>.&nbsp;<i>Justia Law</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved&nbsp;<span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;">2018-01-03</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Justia+Law&rft.atitle=United+States+v.+Association+of+Citizens+Councils+of+La.%2C+196+F.+Supp.+908+%28W.D.+La.+1961%29&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Flaw.justia.com%2Fcases%2Ffederal%2Fdistrict-courts%2FFSupp%2F196%2F908%2F1690500%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACitizens%27+Councils" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-Payne2007-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;">&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#cite_ref-Payne2007_14-0" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:</span><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#cite_ref-Payne2007_14-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#cite_ref-Payne2007_14-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation book" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Payne, Charles M. (March 16, 2007).&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=4eh_iGj2bzsC" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><i>I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle</i></a>. 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Retrieved&nbsp;<span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;">2018-01-03</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=historicalthinkingmatters.org&rft.atitle=Historical+Thinking+Matters%3A+Rosa+Parks&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fhistoricalthinkingmatters.org%2Frosaparks%2F0%2Finquiry%2Fmain%2Fquestions%2F23%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACitizens%27+Councils" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-Dittmer1995-17" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#cite_ref-Dittmer1995_17-0" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span></a></b></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation book" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dittmer" title="John Dittmer" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Dittmer, John</a>&nbsp;(May 1, 1995).&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=-k9Wyp87Z7cC" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><i>Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi</i></a>. University of Illinois Press. pp.&nbsp;46–48.&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" title="International Standard Book Number" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">ISBN</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-252-06507-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-252-06507-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">978-0-252-06507-1</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved&nbsp;<span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;">September 7,</span>&nbsp;2011</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Local+People%3A+The+Struggle+for+Civil+Rights+in+Mississippi&rft.pages=46-48&rft.pub=University+of+Illinois+Press&rft.date=1995-05-01&rft.isbn=978-0-252-06507-1&rft.aulast=Dittmer&rft.aufirst=John&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D-k9Wyp87Z7cC&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACitizens%27+Councils" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-18" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#cite_ref-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span></a></b></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation book" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">McMillen, Neil R. (1971).&nbsp;<i>The Citizen's Council: Organized Resistance to the Second Reconstruction, 1954–1964</i>. Urbana:&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Illinois_Press" title="University of Illinois Press" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">University of Illinois Press</a>. p.&nbsp;211.&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" title="International Standard Book Number" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">ISBN</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-252-00177-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-252-00177-X" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">0-252-00177-X</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Citizen%27s+Council%3A+Organized+Resistance+to+the+Second+Reconstruction%2C+1954%E2%80%931964&rft.place=Urbana&rft.pages=211&rft.pub=University+of+Illinois+Press&rft.date=1971&rft.isbn=0-252-00177-X&rft.aulast=McMillen&rft.aufirst=Neil+R.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACitizens%27+Councils" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-19" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#cite_ref-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span></a></b></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation journal" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Wakefield" title="Dan Wakefield" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Wakefield, Dan</a>&nbsp;(October 22, 1955). "Respectable Racism".&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nation" title="The Nation" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Nation</a></i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Nation&rft.atitle=Respectable+Racism&rft.date=1955-10-22&rft.aulast=Wakefield&rft.aufirst=Dan&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACitizens%27+Councils" class="Z3988">reprinted in&nbsp;<cite class="citation book" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clayborne_Carson" title="Clayborne Carson" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Carson, Clayborne</a>;&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_J.Garrow" class="mw-redirect" title="David J. Garrow" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Garrow, David J.</a>;&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Kovach" title="Bill Kovach" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Kovach, Bill</a>&nbsp;(2003).&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=9j8OAQAAMAAJ" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><i>Reporting Civil Rights: American journalism, 1941–1963</i></a>. 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Little, Brown. pp.&nbsp;57–58.&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" title="International Standard Book Number" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">ISBN</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-316-91485-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-316-91485-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">978-0-316-91485-7</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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"Newest Navy Vessel Named for Civil Rights Martyr Medgar Evers".&nbsp;<i>Afro - American Red Star</i>. 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"The Economics of Movement Success: Business Responses to Civil Rights Mobilization".&nbsp;<i>The American Journal of Sociology</i>.&nbsp;<b>111</b>&nbsp;(4): 963–0_10.&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_object_identifier" title="Digital object identifier" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1086%2F498632" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">10.1086/498632</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+American+Journal+of+Sociology&rft.atitle=The+Economics+of+Movement+Success%3A+Business+Responses+to+Civil+Rights+Mobilization&rft.volume=111&rft.issue=4&rft.pages=963-0_10&rft.date=2006-01&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1086%2F498632&rft.au=Luders%2C+Joseph&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACitizens%27+Councils" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-NYT-23" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#cite_ref-NYT_23-0" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span></a></b></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation news" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Stout, David (January 23, 2001).&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/23/us/byron-de-la-beckwith-dies-killer-of-medgar-evers-was-80.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"Byron De La Beckwith Dies; Killer of Medgar Evers Was 80"</a>.&nbsp;<i>The New York Times</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved&nbsp;<span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;">April 28,</span>&nbsp;2010</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&rft.atitle=Byron+De+La+Beckwith+Dies%3B+Killer+of+Medgar+Evers+Was+80&rft.date=2001-01-23&rft.aulast=Stout&rft.aufirst=David&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2001%2F01%2F23%2Fus%2Fbyron-de-la-beckwith-dies-killer-of-medgar-evers-was-80.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACitizens%27+Councils" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-Vollers1995-1-24" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#cite_ref-Vollers1995-1_24-0" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span></a></b></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation book" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Vollers, Maryanne (April 1995).&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Zix1QgAACAAJ" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><i>Ghosts of Mississippi: The Murder of Medgar Evers, the Trials of Byron de la Beckwith, and the Haunting of the New South</i></a>. Little, Brown. p.&nbsp;75.&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" title="International Standard Book Number" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">ISBN</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-316-91485-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-316-91485-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">978-0-316-91485-7</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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George; Wren, Christopher S. (December 31, 1962). "How a Secret Deal Prevented a Massacre at Ole Miss".&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look(American_magazine)" title="Look (American magazine)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Look</a></i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Look&rft.atitle=How+a+Secret+Deal+Prevented+a+Massacre+at+Ole+Miss&rft.date=1962-12-31&rft.aulast=Leonard&rft.aufirst=George+B.&rft.au=Harris%2C+T.+George&rft.au=Wren%2C+Christopher+S.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACitizens%27+Councils" class="Z3988">Reprinted in&nbsp;<cite class="citation book" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Carson, Clayborne; Garrow, David J.; Kovach, Bill (2003).&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=9j8OAQAAMAAJ" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><i>Reporting Civil Rights: American journalism, 1941–1963</i></a>. 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"N.A.A.C.P. Leader Slain in Jackson; Protests Mount".&nbsp;<i>New York Times</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=New+York+Times&rft.atitle=N.A.A.C.P.+Leader+Slain+in+Jackson%3B+Protests+Mount&rft.date=1963-06-13&rft.aulast=Sitton&rft.aufirst=Claude&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACitizens%27+Councils" class="Z3988">&nbsp;reprinted in&nbsp;<cite class="citation book" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Carson, Clayborne; Garrow, David J.; Kovach, Bill (2003).&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=9j8OAQAAMAAJ" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><i>Reporting Civil Rights: American journalism, 1941–1963</i></a>. Library of America. pp.&nbsp;831–835<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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(Winter 1956). "The Bus Boycott in Montgomery".&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissent(American_magazine)" title="Dissent (American magazine)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Dissent</a></i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Dissent&rft.atitle=The+Bus+Boycott+in+Montgomery&rft.ssn=winter&rft.date=1956&rft.aulast=Reddick&rft.aufirst=L.D.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACitizens%27+Councils" class="Z3988">reprinted in&nbsp;<cite class="citation book" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Carson, Clayborne; Garrow, David J.; Kovach, Bill (2003).&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=9j8OAQAAMAAJ" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><i>Reporting Civil Rights: American journalism, 1941–1963</i></a>. Library of America. pp.&nbsp;252–265<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved&nbsp;<span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;">September 14,</span>&nbsp;2011</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Reporting+Civil+Rights%3A+American+journalism%2C+1941%E2%80%931963&rft.pages=252-265&rft.pub=Library+of+America&rft.date=2003&rft.aulast=Carson&rft.aufirst=Clayborne&rft.au=Garrow%2C+David+J.&rft.au=Kovach%2C+Bill&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D9j8OAQAAMAAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACitizens%27+Councils" class="Z3988" /></span></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-Bartley1999-28" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#cite_ref-Bartley1999_28-0" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span></a></b></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation book" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Bartley, Numan V. (1999).&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=tOy6PLcuey4C" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><i>The Rise of Massive Resistance: Race and Politics in the South during the 1950s</i></a>. 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(1971). "Chapter IV Louisiana: And Catholics Too".&nbsp;<i>The Citizen's Council: Organized Resistance to the Second Reconstruction, 1954–1964</i>. 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Retrieved&nbsp;<span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;">2018-01-03</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Justia+Law&rft.atitle=United+States+v.+State+of+Louisiana%2C+225+F.+Supp.+353+%28E.D.+La.+1963%29&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Flaw.justia.com%2Fcases%2Ffederal%2Fdistrict-courts%2FFSupp%2F225%2F353%2F1872222%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACitizens%27+Councils" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-33" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#cite_ref-33" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span></a></b></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation book" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Diamond, Sara (1995).&nbsp;<i>Roads to Dominion: Right-Wing Movements and Political Power in the United States</i>. 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(1971).&nbsp;<i>The Citizen's Council: Organized Resistance to the Second Reconstruction, 1954–1964</i>. Urbana:&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Illinois_Press" title="University of Illinois Press" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">University of Illinois Press</a>. p.&nbsp;301.&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" title="International Standard Book Number" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">ISBN</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-252-00177-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-252-00177-X" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">0-252-00177-X</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Citizen%27s+Council%3A+Organized+Resistance+to+the+Second+Reconstruction%2C+1954%E2%80%931964&rft.place=Urbana&rft.pages=301&rft.pub=University+of+Illinois+Press&rft.date=1971&rft.isbn=0-252-00177-X&rft.aulast=McMillen&rft.aufirst=Neil+R.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACitizens%27+Councils" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li></ol></div></div><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Further_reading">Further reading</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Citizens%27_Councils&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Further reading" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><div class="refbegin" style="margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229.5%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%2300528c%22/%3E" c="C" e="E" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Geary, Daniel and Sutton, Jennifer. "Resisting the Wind of Change: The Citizens' Councils and European Decolonization," in Cornelius A. van Minnen and Manfred Berg, eds.,&nbsp;<i>The U.S. South and Europe,</i>&nbsp;University of Kentucky Press, 2013.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><cite class="citation book" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_R._McMillen" title="Neil R. 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Originally a publication of the Mississippi Citizens' Council, the monthly publication became the official paper of the Citizens' Councils of America in October 1956.</font><ul style="list-style-type: disc; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229.5%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%2300528c%22/%3E" c="C" e="E" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Available in PDF from&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/search.php?query=%22The%20Citizens%27%20Council%22" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">Internet Archive</a>.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A complete set of&nbsp;<i>The Citizens' Council</i>&nbsp;(1961-1973) is available at the University of North Carolina Libraries.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils#cite_note-37" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup></font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><cite class="citation web" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/general_library/archives/finding_aids/MUM00072.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"Finding aid for the Citizens' Council Collection"</a>.&nbsp;<i>The University of Mississippi</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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