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Desegregation Tension Drives Militant Right in South
A DC editor notes rising conservative militancy tied to desegregation as White Citizens Councils and Ku Klux Klan factions gain footing in Georgia Alabama and Mississippi. Leaders like Maddox and Shelton feature amid charges of anti integration campaigns while defense of states rights and anti Communist plots merge with racial segregation protest.
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Inc
United States
Gallon
South
Jules Loh
Prem Stall
Fed
State Sovereignty
Welch
Jackson
State Times
Georgia
Patterson
Greenwood
Miss
Lester Maddox
Association of Citizens
Alma
TSR
Beeman
Elmore
Alabama
Elijah Poole
Muhammad
Chicago
Bol
Fard
Poole
Elijah
Ana Te
Allah
Citizens Council
Plains
Birmingham
Ala
Freedom Riders
Russia
Joseph Fitzpatrick
S. J
Fordham University
Mississippi
Cou
Alabama Association of Citizens Councils
Alabama Citizens Councils
Inter-State Citizens Councils of America
Alabama Knights of the
U.S. Ku Klux Klan Inc
Robert M. Shelton
Tuscaloosa
Shelton