Council of Conservative Citizens

• With 'Resegregation,' Old Divisions Take New Form
           By Thomas Edsall, Washington Post (April 9, 1999)
  
  
• Trent Lott's Dilemma
           By Richard Cohen, Washington Post (April 9, 1999)
  
  
• Council Directors Challenge Congressmen to Debate
           CCC News Release (March 31, 1999)
  
  
• 3 Consonants And a Disavowal
           By Kevin Merida, Washington Post (March 29, 1999)
  
  
• Bigotry Measure Defeated in House
           By Jim Abrams, Associated Press (March 24, 1999)
  
  
• Resolution Condemning Bigotry Divides House
           By Jim Abrams, Associated Press (March 23, 1999)
  
  
• Heat Rises Under GOP Leaders to Condemn Conservative Group
           By Sam Fulwood and III and Judy Lin, Los Angeles Times (March 21, 1999)
  
  
• Lawmaker Grabs Spotlight to Attack Racist Fringe
           By Mary Jacoby, St. Petersburg Times (March 19, 1999)
  
  
• Should Congress Condemn the Council of Conservative Citizens?
           March 15, 1999
  
  
• GOP Faces Racial Dilemma
           Stanley Crouch, New York Daily News (March 7, 1999)
  
  
• When Politicians Fraternize With White Supremacists
           Farai Chideya, USA Today - Opinion (March 2, 1999)
  
  
• RNC Member Quits CCC Over Racism
           Associated Press (February 28, 1999)
  
  
• RNC Chair & Co-Chair Condemn Statements by Julian Bond
           Press Release, Republican National Committee (February 23, 1999)
  
  
• NAACP's Bond Blasts Congressional GOP
           Bill McAllister, Washington Post (February 21, 1999)
  
  
• NAACP Head Attacks Republican Leaders in Congress
           Eddie Evans, Reuters (February 20, 1999)
  
  
• No Friend of the CCC
           Rep. Bob Barr, Washington Post (February 19, 1999)
  
  
• Organization Responds to Racism Charges
           Gordon Lee Baum, Washington Times (February 16, 1999)
  
  
• Racial Issues From the Past Still Fester
           Lewis W. Diuguid, Kansas City Star (February 16, 1999)
  
  
• Our Phony Penitent-in-Chief Has Idiotic Hitler Theory
           Ron Rosenbaum, New York Observer (February 15, 1999)
  
  
• Roll Call Interview with Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.)
           Roll Call (February 15, 1999)
  
  
• Trial's Over, But Don't Cheer
           Stanley Crouch, New York Daily News (February 14, 1999)
  
  
• Quiet Persistence, Cooperation Have Paid Off for Clyburn
           Steve Piacente, Charleston Post and Courier (February 14, 1999)
  
  
• A Dilemma Named Buddy Witherspoon
           Lee Bandy, The State (Columbia, S.C.) (February 14, 1999)
  
  
• 'Too Conservative' Witherspoon an Enigma Even to GOP
           The State (Columbia, S.C.) (February 14, 1999)
  
  
• A Real Danger: Racists in High Places
           Cynthia Tucker, Atlanta Constitution (February 14, 1999)
  
  
• Q & A on the News
           Colin Bessonette, Atlanta Constitution (February 14, 1999)
  
  
• The End of Impeachment
           Rebecca Carr, Atlanta Constitution (February 13, 1999)
  
  
• Brutal Fight Ends in Failure, Questions
           Mary Jacobs and David Dahl, St. Petersburg Times (February 13, 1999)
  
  
• Bob Barr Replies
           Rep. Bob Barr, Kansas City Star (February 13, 1999)
  
  
• Preserving a Deserved Reputation
           Washington Post (February 13, 1999)
  
  
• Mississippi Politics: ... And the Dog You Came in With
           The Economist (February 13, 1999)
  
  
• It's Slow Going to Get Congress to Denounce White Racist Group
           Derrick Z. Jackson, Boston Globe (February 12, 1999)
  
  
• Southern Strategy Has Bottomed Out
           Richard Tafel, Los Angeles Times (February 12, 1999)
  
  
• Hodges Met With Ex-Chief of CCC
           Associated Press, Charleston Post and Courier (February 12, 1999)
  
  
• GOP Urging Witherspoon to Quit Group
           The State (Columbia, S.C.) (February 11, 1999)
  
  
• The Racist Links Around Trent Lott
           Derrick Z. Jackson, Boston Globe (February 10, 1999)
  
  
• Barr's Views Aren't CCC's
           Rep. Bob Barr, Minneapolis Star Tribune (February 10, 1999)
  
  
• Barr on the CCC
           Rep. Bob Barr, Los Angeles Times (February 10, 1999)
  
  
• Gov. Hodges Consulted with the CCC
           Palmetto Journal (February 9, 1999)
  
  
• We Need to Rid Mississippi of Racist Organizations
           Chris Uchello, Biloxi Sun Herald (February 8, 1999)
  
  
• Preserving the Ways of My Ancestors
           Jared Taylor, Washington Post (February 6, 1999)
  
  
• Media Hound a Black Mayor for His Offense But Let Lott Off the Hook
           Derrick Z. Jackson, Boston Globe (February 5, 1999)
  
  
• Inside Politics: Keep Your Day Job
           Greg Pierce, Washington Times (February 5, 1999)
  
  
• Smear Campaign?
           Letters to the Editor, St. Louis Post-Dispatch (February 5, 1999)
  
  
• The Pursuit of Racial Sensitivity Keeps Tripping Over Words
           Trevor W. Coleman, Detroit Free Press (February 4, 1999)
  
  
• CCC Press Release
           Gordon Lee Baum (February 4, 1999)
  
  
• Councilors Spar Over O'Neil Flap
           Stephanie Ebbert, Boston Globe (February 4, 1999)
  
  
• Rep. Clyburn Wants Conservative Citizens Spurned
           Steve Piacente, Charleston Post and Courier (February 3, 1999)
  
  
• Inside Politics: Divisive Democrats
           Greg Pierce, Washington Times (February 3, 1999)
  
  
• Trent Lott's Sins Splitting GOP Along Racial Lines
           Stanley Crouch, New York Daily News (February 3, 1999)
  
  
• Stooping to Conquer Mr. Ashcroft
           Editorial, St. Louis Post-Dispatch (February 2, 1999)
  
  
• Lott Haunted by Connections with Conservative Citizens Group
           Charles Pope, Congressional Quarterly (February 2, 1999)
  
  
• Attack On Conservative Group as "Racist" Is a Smear
           Samuel T. Francis, Syndicated Columnist (February 2, 1999)
  
  
• Associated Press Feature on the CCC
           Allen G. Breed (February 2, 1999)
  
  
• Bill's Forgotten Woman - I Give You Paula Jones
           Ron Rosenbaum, New York Observer (February 1, 1999)
  
  
• The People vs. Larry Flynt?
           Katha Pollitt, The Nation (February 1, 1999)
  
  
• Pulling Back the Curtain
           Matt Bai, Newsweek (February 1, 1999)
  
  
• Avoiding Racist Views, Organizations
           Rhonda Chriss Lokeman, Kansas City Star (February 1, 1999)
  
  
• Since Bob Barr Is No Racist, Let Him Go After Lott
           Stanley Crouch, New York Daily News (January 31, 1999)
  
  
• Lott Finds Battle for Senate Unity as Easy as Herding Cats
           Andrew Marshall, Independent on Sunday (London) (January 31, 1999)
  
  
• Brushing Against Less Visible Dangers
           Armstrong Williams, Washington Times (January 30, 1999)
  
  
• Resolution Targets Council of Conservative Citizens
           Thomas B. Edsall, Washington Post (January 30, 1999)
  
  
• The GOP's Lost Patrol
           Mark Shields, Washington Post (January 30, 1999)
  
  
• Prominent Democrat Addressed CCC-Sponsored Event
           Scott Hogenson, Conservative News Service (January 29, 1999)
  
  
• Conservative Group Ends E-Mail Postings
           Thomas B. Edsall, Washington Post (January 29, 1999)
  
  
• Offbeat: Southern Comfort
           Los Angeles Weekly (January 29, 1999)
  
  
• The Truth About My Views on Race
           Rep. Bob Barr, New York Daily News (January 28, 1999)
  
  
• O'Neil Angered by Questions On His Support for Group
           Stephanie Ebbert, Boston Globe (January 28, 1999)
  
  
• Letter to Martin Frost
           (January 28, 1999)
  
  
• Congressional Black Caucus Letter to Rep. J.C. Watts
           (January 28, 1999)
  
  
• Letter to the DNC Co-Chairs About the CCC
           (January 27, 1999)
  
  
• GOP Has Earned the Enmity of Blacks
           Bill Maxwell, St. Petersburg Times (January 27, 1999)
  
  
• In Defense of Bob Barr: The "New" Democrats' Deadly Sins
           Jerome M. Zeifman, WorldNet Daily (January 27, 1999)
  
  
• RNC Rejects Middle American Supporters
           Samuel T. Francis, Syndicated Columnist (January 26, 1999)
  
  
• Clinton On Trial, But In Some Ways, So Is Lott
           Chuck Raasch, Gannett News Service (January 26, 1999)
  
  
• Links to Separatists Embarrass Both Parties
           Tom Teepen, Atlanta Constitution (January 26, 1999)
  
  
• Ripon Society Denounces Racist Ties
           M2 Communications Presswire (January 26, 1999)
  
  
• Lott Campaigns to Segregate Himself From Extremist Group
           Judy Pasternak, Los Angeles Times (January 26, 1999)
  
  
• Six Degrees of Segregation?
           Arianna Huffington, Arianna Online (January 25, 1999)
  
  
• The Week
           National Review (January 25 and February 8, 1999)
  
  
• Report on Republican National Committeeman Buddy Witherspoon
           United Press International (January 25, 1999)
  
  
• RNC Member's Resignation Sought
           Associated Press (January 25, 1999)
  
  
• Explaining Clinton: He Feels Our Guilt - And Plays Off It
           by Ron Rosenbaum, New York Observer (January 25, 1999)
  
  
• Birch Society Opposes Whites-Only Group
           Harold S. Shurtleff, Boston Globe (January 24, 1999)
  
  
• Both Sides with Jesse Jackson: Interview with Gordon Baum
           CNN (January 24, 1999)
  
  
• Leader Defends Conservative Group From Charges of Racism
           Scott Canon, Kansas City Star (January 24, 1999)
  
  
• Washington's Other Scandal Is Far More Disgusting
           Leonard Pitts, Miami Herald (January 24, 1999)
  
  
• 'Dixie' Ignored, Group Alleges
           Augusta Chronicle (January 24, 1999)
  
  
• Lott Becomes Newest Target for Jackson
           Donald V. Adderton, Biloxi Sun Herald (January 24, 1999)
  
  
• GOP Still Whistlin' Dixie
           Editorial, New York Daily News (January 23, 1999)
  
  
• GOP Chairman Reelected Amid Impeachment Worry
           Thomas B. Edsall, Washington Post (January 23, 1999)
  
  
• White Chauvinism for the '90s
           Colbert I. King, Washington Post (January 23, 1999)
  
  
• Unequal Rights for Haters
           Ishmael Reed, Salon (January 23, 1999)
  
  
• Sticks and Stones
           Jared Taylor, Washington Post (January 23, 1999)
  
  
• Republicans Reject S. Carolina Member's Proposed Gambling Money Ban
           Michelle R. Davis, Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News (January 23, 1999)
  
  
• Republican Leadership Council Denounces CCC
           RLC Press Release (January 22, 1999)
  
  
• NAACP Chairman Ridicules Public Silence
           Julian Bond, NAACP (January 22, 1999)
  
  
• Gutter Politics
           Editorial, Boston Globe (January 22, 1999)
  
  
• Letter to the Editor
           Michael Collins Piper, Orange County Weekly (January 22, 1999)
  
  
• LCR Condemns Racist Anti-Gay Group Linked to Lott, Barr
           Log Cabin Republicans (January 22, 1999)
  
  
• Racism Is Only A Conservative Problem, Right?
           Larry Elder, Jewish World Review (January 21, 1999)
  
  
• When the Pie Hits Your Eye, It's Not Amore
           Rob Morse, San Francisco Examiner (January 21, 1999)
  
  
• Doing the 'White' Thing on Capitol Hill
           Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune (January 20, 1999)
  
  
• GOP Chairman Denounces 'Racist' Group
           Thomas B. Edsall, Washington Post (January 20, 1999)
  
  
• The Trial: Nation Will Survive ...
           Stanley Crouch, New York Daily News (January 20, 1999)
  
  
• Flynt Hustles Tale of GOP Hypocrisy
           Robert Scheer, Los Angeles Times (January 19, 1999)
  
  
• RNC Chair Wary of Right-Wing Group
           Glen Johnson, Associated Press (January 19, 1999)
  
  
• Barr Inspires Loyalty, Loathing in Home District
           J.R. Moehringer, Los Angeles Times (January 19, 1999)
  
  
• The Dream In Black and White
           Editorial, New York Daily News (January 18, 1999)
  
  
• La minorité extrémiste tente de s'imposer au sein du Parti républicain
           P. de B., Le Monde (January 18, 1999)
  
  
• Well-Connected Racists Keep Friends in High Places
           Diane Roberts, St. Petersburg Times (January 17, 1999)
  
  
• For King, Lott Should Kiss Off Supremacists
           Cynthia Tucker, Atlanta Journal-Constitution (January 17, 1999)
  
  
• White Wash
           Michael Powell, Washington Post (January 17, 1999)
  
  
• Black Leaders Are In A Poor Position To Go After Lott
           Stanley Crouch, New York Daily News (January 17, 1999)
  
  
• Lott's Association With Supremacist Group Questioned
           Joan Lowy, Scripps Howard News Service (January 16, 1999)
  
  
• Trent Lott's Second Chance
           Colbert I. King, Washington Post (January 16, 1999)
  
  
• Conservative Site Inspection
           Abraham Foxman (ADL), Washington Post (January 16, 1999)
  
  
• Black and White Americans Will Never Truly Mix
           Dennis Wheeler, Atlanta Journal-Constitution (January 15, 1999)
  
  
• In the Senate, Hearing the Sounds of the Noose and Jim Crow
           Karen Grigsby Bates, Los Angeles Times (January 15, 1999)
  
  
• O'Neil Affirms Support for Pro-White Group
           Anthony Flint, Boston Globe (January 15, 1999)
  
  
• Broadcast Outlets Should Cover Majority Leader's Public Scandal
           Fairness and Accuracy in Media (January 15, 1999)
  
  
• Clinton Tests Lott on Gay Ambassador
           Derrick Z. Jackson, Boston Globe (January 15, 1999)
  
  
• Fordice Links to Group Questioned
           States News Service (January 15, 1999)
  
  
• Trent Lott's Untidy Job
           Kevin Merida, Washington Post (January 14, 1999)
  
  
• Beyond Infidelity: Public Morality
           Editorial, St. Louis Post-Dispatch (January 14, 1999)
  
  
• Lott, and the Shadow of a Pro-White Group
           John Kifner, New York Times (January 14, 1999)
  
  
• Racism at the Council of Conservative Citizens
           Jude Wanniski (January 14, 1999)
  
  
• Media Beat: The Media Rabbit Hole in 1999
           Norman Solomon, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (January 14, 1999)
  
  
• Controversial Group Has Strong Ties to Both Parties in South
           Thomas B. Edsall, Washington Post (January 13, 1999)
  
  
• Praise for Lott Is Hollow, Given His Seamy Past
           Stanley Crouch, New York Daily News (January 13, 1999)
  
  
• The Old Guard Goes After Bill
           Stanley Crouch, New York Daily News (January 10, 1999)
  
  
• Barr's Other Side
           Nat Hentoff, Washington Post (January 9, 1999)
  
  
• Mr. Lott's 'Big Mistake'
           Bob Herbert, New York Times (January 7, 1999)
  
  
• Trent Lott's Link to Racist Group Has Real Pedigree
           Stanley Crouch, New York Daily News (January 6, 1999)
  
  
• This Duke Is One More Hazard for the Republican Party
           George McEvoy, Palm Beach Post (January 6, 1999)
  
  
• Not a 'White Supremacy Group'
           Gordon Lee Baum, Washington Post (January 2, 1999)
  
  
• Bill Clinton Knows Evil
           Larry Elder, Frontpage Magazine (December 31, 1998)
  
  
• More Questions On Lott and Barr But Few Answers
           Stanley Crouch, New York Daily News (December 30, 1998)
  
  
• Leftist Professor and His Smear Campaign
           Samuel T. Francis, Syndicated Columnist (December 29, 1998)
  
  
• Impeachment Eve
           Andrew Ferguson, The Weekly Standard (December 28, 1998)
  
  
• Let's Be Honest About Lott and Barr
           Stanley Crouch, New York Daily News (December 27, 1998)
  
  
• Scandals Sans Bimbos Need Not Apply
           Frank Rich, New York Times (December 26, 1998)
  
  
• Fear and Hatred Here at Home
           Colbert I. King, Washington Post (December 26, 1998)
  
  
• Let's Get Mikey
           Matt Coker, Orange County Weekly (December 25-31, 1998)
  
  
• Local H: Mr. Millard, White Courtesy Phone
           Wyn Hilty, Orange County Weekly (December 25-31, 1998)
  
  
• Angered Citizens Protest Politician's Speech
           Doug Payne, Atlanta Journal and Constitution (December 24, 1998)
  
  
• Two Leaders' Ties to Bias Group Embarrass GOP
           Stanley Crouch, New York Daily News (December 23, 1998)
  
  
• Why Lott and Barr Hate Clinton
           Joe Conason, Salon (December 22, 1998)
  
  
• Washington Post Columnist Questions Lott's Fitness To Be Majority Leader
           Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (December 22, 1998)
  
  
• GOP in the South Sees a Civil War It Can Win
           Earl Ofari Hutchinson, Los Angeles Times (December 21, 1998)
  
  
• ADL Says CCC Is Racist Not Conservative
           (December 21, 1998)
  
  
• Lowering the Barr on GOP Brain Power
           Harley Sorensen, San Francisco Examiner (December 21, 1998)
  
  
• GOP Is Wagging the Nation
           Stanley Crouch, New York Daily News (December 20, 1998)
  
  
• Conservative Group Accused of Ties to White Supremacists
           Thomas B. Edsall, Washington Post (December 19, 1998)
  
  
• Senator Lott's Odd Friends
           Colbert I. King, Washington Post (December 19, 1998)
  
  
• Sharks in the Mainstream
           Southern Poverty Law Center (December 18, 1998)
  
  
• Lott Renounces White 'Racialist' Group He Praised in 1992
           Thomas B. Edsall, Washington Post (December 16, 1998)
  
  
• Cornered Barr: Bob Barr's Credibility Gap
           Jason Zengerle, The New Republic (December 16, 1998)
  
  
• Barr's Buddies
           Cynthia Tucker, Atlanta Constitution (December 16, 1998)
  
  
• U.S. Has Survived Bouts of Arch-Conservatism Before
           George McEvoy, Palm Beach Post (December 16, 1998)
  
  
• Trent Lott Supported White-Supremacist Group
           Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (December 15, 1998)
  
  
• As Impeachment Looms, Clinton Attack Dogs Conduct High Level Smear Campaign
           Mary Mostart, Original Sources (December 14, 1998)
  
  
• The Capitol Hill Mob
           Bob Herbert, New York Times (December 13, 1998)
  
  
• Barr Blasts Scorched Earth Tactics
           Rep. Bob Barr, Press Release (December 11, 1998)
  
  
• Barr Spoke to White Supremacy Group
           Thomas B. Edsall, Washington Post (December 11, 1998)
  
  
• Media Should Cover Racist Links of Elected Officials Like Barr and Lott
           Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (December 11, 1998)
  
  
• Real America?
           Joan Walsh, Salon (December 11, 1998)
  
  
• Bob Barr Scorched in Washington Post
           Matt Drudge, Drudge Report (December 11, 1998)
  
  
• Alan Dershowitz's Un-American Activities
           Larry Elder, Frontpage Magazine (December 10, 1998)
  
  
• Dangers of the 'Right Wing' Agenda?
           Margaret L. Kempf, Washington Times (October 4, 1998)
  
  
• Paul Fromm on the June 5-6, 1998 CCC Meeting
  
  
• Huckabee Won't Appear With Racist
           Bill Duhart, Philadelphia Tribune (April 12, 1994)
  

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Related Links

• Wexler/Clyburn Resolution (H. Res. 35) Urges Congress to Condemn CCC
           Press Release (February 2, 1999)
  
  
• Council of Conservative Citizens
  
  
• The Militia Watchdog: CCC Chronology
  
  
• White Racism Rears its Head at Conservative Conference
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