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Stephanie Rolph's study examines the history of the Citizens' Council, an organization committed to coordinating opposition to desegregation and black voting rights. Founded in 1954, two months after the Brown v. Board of Education decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that declared "separate but equal" educational facilities unconstitutional, the Council spread rapidly in its home state of Mississippi throughout 1954 and 1955. Initially, the organization relied on local chapters to monitor signs of black activism and take action to suppress that activism through economic and sometimes violent...