Sentences with phrase «white citizens councils»

Have students read and discuss the excerpts from David Halberstam's The White Citizens Councils and Robert Penn Warren's Segregation: The Inner Conflict in the South to provide historical context for the character of Atticus in Watchman.

A few months after Rosa Parks refused to leave her seat in the «white» section of the bus, editor Harold Fey traveled to Nashville, Jackson and Tuscaloosa, where he encountered firsthand the emerging White Citizens Councils, and then reached Montgomery, where he provided an account of the bus boycott for Century readers.

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Evers was assassinated by Byron De La Beckwith, a member of the White Citizens» Council.

The outbreak of violence, intimidation, and the formation of «white citizens» councils» that has come with the effort to desegregate the schools is a carry - over both from the Negro's former status as a slave and from the assumption by white persons of the Negro's general inferiority.

Yet the attempts made to nullify the Supreme Court decision even at the cost of eliminating the public schools and passing acts of open defiance in state legislatures, to say nothing of rioting and violence and the nonviolent but intimidating acts of white citizens» councils, indicate how long a road there is yet to travel.

It's been endorsed by the White Citizens» Council.

In June 1963, Evers was shot to death in his own driveway, with his wife and children watching at the window, by a local member of the White Citizens» Council.

The suspect in the crime, 21 - year - old Dylann Storm Roof, is a white man who was known to be heavily influenced by online white supremacist hate speech, most notably from the Council of Conservative Citizens, a group that now functions primarily as an Internet clearinghouse for racial fear - mongering «news» stories.