WCC

• White Citizens' Councils were set up from 1954 onwards to stop desegregation. They had around 60,000 members in the mid-1950s.
• Often began as organisations opposed to school desegregation in their local area after the Brown ruling.
• They used protesting, violence and economic means to stop calls for desegregation. For example, WCC members sacked black employees who signed petitions or were involved in civil rights activities.