Mississippi Association of Independent Schools - Citizens' Council Connections

Citizens' Council Connections

Historian Joseph Crespino has stated that members of the White Citizens' Council "doubtless" played a role in the founding of the Association. Sociologist Kenneth Andrews says that the MPSA built "on the earlier foundation of the Citizens' Council and the Council School Foundation."

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