#CivilRightsAct
3 entries tagged CivilRightsAct.
People (1)
- John C. Satterfield Yazoo City lawyer and president of the American Bar Association in 1961 who ran the Washington lobby against the Civil Rights Act on anonymous money from Wickliffe Draper passed through the Mississippi treasury.
Organizations (2)
- Coordinating Committee for Fundamental American Freedoms Washington lobby against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, chaired by the publisher William Loeb, that drew three quarters of its 343,191 dollars through the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, most of it from Wickliffe Draper.
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission Mississippi state agency that from 1956 to 1973 paid informants to watch civil rights workers, financed the Citizens' Councils, and passed a New York heir's anonymous stock gifts to a lobby against the Civil Rights Act.