William J. Simmons

Born: 1916-07-07

William James Simmons was a leader of the segregationist white Citizens Council of Mississippi in the 1950s and 1960s.


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Freedom Summer

as Self - Mississippi Citizens' Council (archive footage)
Released: 2014-01-17

In the summer of 1964, more than 700 students descended on violent, segregated Mississippi....

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