More recently he praised the Citizens Council, a segregationist group, for keeping the peace in his town when he was growing up, though he retracted later.
recent federal action undermined the segregationist position; the United Nations must have the power to propose and organize action without being hobbled by irrelevant issues; the Union action of emancipating Southern slaves.
Following the U. S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954), African American and white supporters attempted to end entrenched segregationist practices.
