Talk:Citizens' Councils

message: The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture has a lot of info about this movement; it places its peak powers a little earlier than the Wikipedia article does, in the late 1950s; my questioning of this would be that very little school desegregation had acutally occurred in the Deep South in the late 50s, Brown v. Board notwithstanding.  Rlquall 01:38, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Another good source 

message: While that phrase is very likely to be accurate, it seems to be irrelevant at best. That phrase was originally put in by an anonymous editor from an HHS department IP in September 2008. I also reworded the first sentence for the formation section.
--RobbieFal (talk) 05:18, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fourteen White Democrats 

message: regarding this diff
i agree that it's unsourced material (obviously).  i doubt that it's original research.  anyway, i'm not going to put it back in until i can rewrite it in accord with sources, but i'd like to leave a record of it here, since there's no question in my mind that (a) it is accurate, (b) that it is sourceable, and (c) that it belongs in the article. (by the way, i have no quarrel whatsoever with the removal of the word "typical" from the the caption of the picture.) — alf.laylah.wa.laylah (talk) 23:57, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  influence of the councils 

message: This content is unrelated to the "Decline of the movement" as the section is titled. It doesn't add anything to the reader's understanding of WCC. It is properly covered in Barbour's article, not here. If there are no objections I'll remove it.– Lionel (talk) 01:32, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: it seems to me that the fact that barbour was addressing an organization that evolved from a WCC group makes his statements relevant to the decline of the WCC, especially because of this bit: He stated that the local WCC rejected the Ku Klux Klan implying that the local chapter of the WCC was not an impediment to peaceful integration although individuals who petitioned for educational integration were singled out and publicly blacklisted by the WCC.  this is relevant to the decline of the movement because it demonstrates the concerns of people who had been in the movement at a time when the movement was declining.  the sentence before that, about barbour receiving some criticism, serves to set this up in context.  thus, especially given that both sentences are well sourced, i would prefer to leave them in. — alf.laylah.wa.laylah (talk) 01:48, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: by the way, good call on the scare quotes. — alf.laylah.wa.laylah (talk) 01:49, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks! He wasn't addressing a descendant org. He was being interviewed by the Weekly Standard. Does this in fact "demonstrate the concerns of people who had been in the movement"? The source doesn't think so.  The source says that Barbour's recollection was "confused, his memory is faulty." So if the source doubts Barbour's statements as to the WCC, we can't use it. The content is not supported by the source. – Lionel (talk) 02:03, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: btw love the public domain upload. – Lionel (talk) 02:06, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: i see, you're right.  i hadn't checked.  there's no evidence at all in either of those sources for his having addressed such a group.  how about if we take out everything from "in recent years..." it's possible that the material does have some place in this article, i think, but (a) where it is now isn't it, and (b) the three sentences as they stand are really misleading and misrepresentative of what the sources say. — alf.laylah.wa.laylah (talk) 03:05, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

text: – Lionel (talk) 03:12, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: regarding pd upload: if you haven't done so, it's really worth reading those newspapers at archive.org.  it seems impossible to fit the stuff into the article itself without committing the sin of OR (hence the clip, and why i'm glad you changed the caption, even though it was my caption), but they're quite enlightening. — alf.laylah.wa.laylah (talk) 03:36, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Barbour 

message: It looks like you're trying to say that WCC caused black unemployment. Without a source saying that WCC in fact caused that, and your source does not, this is original research WP:OR. – Lionel (talk) 02:13, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: you're right.  i've rewritten the sentence to reflect the information in the source. more to follow. — alf.laylah.wa.laylah (talk) 03:11, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: A glance at the source seems to indicate it is talking about Black leaders, in particular "leaders of the two major black protest organizations, the NAACP and the RCNI." Note I am looking at snippets, not full pages. Anyway, we should be specific. – Lionel (talk) 03:19, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: no, it specifically says "registered black voters, school desegregation proponents, and NAACP leaders across the state fell victim to Citizens' Council tactics" (p.48).  now, i can see how the source doesn't specifically say that members of the NAACP who weren't leaders and who also were neither registered black voters nor school desegregation proponents were subjected to these tactics, but that seems like splitting hairs.  — alf.laylah.wa.laylah (talk) 03:33, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Influences 

message: i realize by now that this article is in kind of bad shape and contains some serious repetition.  i'll try to trim it down tomorrow, but if anyone would like to hack away at it before i get to it, please feel free.  we can sort out the details as we go. — alf.laylah.wa.laylah (talk) 05:08, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  redundancies 

message: The name was "Citizens' Councils," not "White Citizens' Councils" - as evidenced by the logo displayed with the article.  "White" was added by its opponents.  173.21.65.42 (talk) 02:24, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  The name of the organization 

message: ...such says the first line of the article.   Is that really the case or was that an error of some type?
4.254.84.8 (talk) 22:04, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Well spotted. That was vandalism yesterday. I'm surprised it remained so long (and that I didn't spot it). Fixed now. Dougweller (talk) 07:06, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: A ''masochist'' organisation?

message: Although the article is fairly lengthy, it actually says almost nothing about the organization, apart from saying that "during the 1950s and 1960s, when it retaliated with economic boycotts and other strong intimidation against black activists, including depriving them of jobs.".  Did it even exist after the 1960's?  When was it wound up? There must be more information available.  Incidentally the Council of Conservative Citizens, founded in 1985 or 1988 is not "the successor organization to the White Citizens' Council". It is the present day equivalent.203.184.41.226 (talk) 04:43, 12 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: A critical reading of the article, its structure, and review of the references show many to be dead or deficient. The article conflates CC and CCC. Bundling the whole article under History doesn't make much sense.  That can be fixed easily. The references need to be searched and repaired manually. Rhadow (talk) 16:42, 27 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  History 

message: The formation of the Citizens' Councils is well documented. Its demise, not so well.  This reflects most of the available descriptions of the organizations. The relatively complete CC collection at Old Miss  has works only until 1968.  Without venturing into original research, it would be valuable to highlight demise of the CC and transition (or succession or whatever) to Council of Conservative Citizens. This would allow prompt resolution of minor content disputes like this one  with David O. Johnson.  An event in 2015 blamed on the CC was deleted.  An event in 1996 was left in. Without some more detail, there is no reason to believe that there was a CC after 1984, the founding date of the Council of Conservative Citizens. Anyone with me?  Rhadow (talk) 12:58, 27 November 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: A critical reading of the article, its structure, and review of the references show many to be dead or deficient. The article conflates CC and CCC. Bundling the whole article under History doesn't make much sense.  That can be fixed easily. The references need to be searched and repaired manually. Rhadow (talk) 16:42, 27 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: And a rewrite

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: It has come to my attention that there are, outside America, other kinds of organisations called Citizens' Councils. (e.g. see https://www.newdemocracy.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/RD-Note-Austria.pdf ) What's a good process for integrating them into Wikipedia? Would there eventually be a disambiguation page -- and (despite the past controversy over the name) could this one have a disambiguating parenthetic addition? If there is a general consensus on how to proceed I'll relay that to those interested. Thanks Simon Grant (talk) 09:49, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other Citizens' Councils