Word: protofascist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Carter describes as "the uptown Ku Klux Klan." Though it lacked-and still does-any kind of interstate organization or direction, the movement rapidly spread through the South. Today Citizens' Councils and similar organizations under other names have an estimated 300,000 members. A few councils have a protofascist tinge; the great majority of them, however, are composed of respectable, middle-class white Southerners who simply believe "there can be no compromise on segregation...