Original sentence: REDIRECT White Citizens' Council
Edited sentence: Additional chapters soon appeared in other communities.As school desegregation increased, in some communities "council schools," sponsored by the WCC, were set up for white children.Board of Education (1954).By this time there was a sign at the city limits of many small Southern towns proclaiming Citizens Council of ______ Welcomes You".Derisively referred to by some as "segregation academies," some exist even today, although they have generally assumed other sponsorship and most have been forced to integrate, at least in theory, in order to maintain the tax-exempt status afforded to non-profit private schools, which is granted only to those which maintain a policy of racial and ethnic nondiscrimination.Fourteen whites in the Delta town of Indianola, Mississippi founded the first known chapter of the CCA on July 11, 1954.Howard of the all-black town Mound Bayou, Mississippi in 1951.Ironically, Patterson was a boyhood friend in Clarksdale, Mississippi of Aaron Henry, an official in the RCNL and the future head of the Mississippi National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.It began in the 1950s as a protest against federal court decisions which ordered racial desegregation, most notably Brown v.It often had the support of the leading citizens of many communities, including business, civic and sometimes religious leaders.Mound Bayou was only forty miles from Indianola.The 'White Citizens' Council' was a term used by the media for the Citizens Councils of America (CCA) which was a U.The formation of the WCC was partly a response to the assertive activities of the Regional Council of Negro Leadership (RCNL), a grass roots civil organization organized by Dr.The movement grew as enforcement of racial desegregation became more intense, probably peaking in the early 1960s.The prime instigator was Robert 'Tut' Patterson, a plantation manager and the former captain of the Mississippi State University football team.Within a few months, the CCA had spread beyond Mississippi into the rest of the Deep South.movement to defend states rights in the United States, particularly the US South