#Segregation

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Harry Weyher New York tax lawyer who was Wickliffe Draper's personal attorney from 1955, executor of his will, and president of the Pioneer Fund from 1958 until his death in 2002.
James Eastland Mississippi senator from 1941 to 1978 and Delta planter who chaired the Internal Security Subcommittee and the Judiciary Committee, buried over a hundred civil rights bills, and drew 100,000 dollars a year in farm subsidies.
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.
Wickliffe Draper Massachusetts textile heir who founded the Pioneer Fund in 1937 and secretly sent nearly 215,000 dollars through Morgan Guaranty to the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission to fight the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

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.
John Birch Society Anticommunist membership society founded by the candy manufacturer Robert Welch at Indianapolis in December 1958, whose first council included Fred Koch and the Wackenhut director Ralph E. Davis, and which circulated Senator Eastland's speeches.
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.