One Year - 1986: A Boycott in Mississippi
Slate History
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How Integration Has Been Held Outside Mississippi
Citizens Council, sometimes known as the White Citizens Council, was founded in July 1954. Support comes from Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and 85,000 living white citizens of Mississippi. Separate and unequal schooling was supposedly abolished in America three decades before 1986. But a group from Indiana Nola made sure that didn't happen.
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