Resistance to Civil Rights
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- Created on: 23-04-15 18:25
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- Resistance to Civil Rights
- White Citizens Councils 1954
- Formed Indianola, Mississippi
- To drive out lack people out through economic ways
- Contrast to KKK they were not violent
- 500 branches with 250,000 members
- Southern Manifesto 1956
- 101 Southern members of Congress signed against Brown ruling, pledging for its reversal
- Harry Byrd called for massive resistance
- Declared Brown "null and void"
- Schools were shut down
- Refusal to Implement Brown
- Eisenhower thought Brown ruling set back progress in south by at least 15 years
- White supremacists defended Southern way of life
- Central govt involved in state matters
- Storm Thurmond 1948
- Southern Dixiecrat who supported radical segregation
- Believed it was wrong for federal govt to impose policies at state level
- 1948 ran as independent candidate against Truman
- Had over a million supporters
- KKK Revival late 50s
- 50,000 members across the South
- Murder of 14 year old Emmett Till in 1955 for allegedly flirting with a white woman murderers deemed not guilty
- White Citizens Councils 1954
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