February 15, 2017
W.J. “Bill” Simmons (far right) was the treasurer of Council McCluer High School when now-Gov. Phil Bryant attended it. As the director of the national Citizens Council of America, a group pushing white supremacy, he helped set up the Council schools in response to the U.S. Supreme Court declaring that public schools had to allow black children to attend.
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