HungryBlues:
Ben Greenberg at HungryBlues has been looking into the Sovereignty Commission. At one point, the hope was for all of the Southern States to "become sovereign" as well, with their own Commission structures:
"Spirit Of Cooperation
MISSISSIPPI TRIED TO RALLY SOUTHERN NEIGHBORS TO SHARE SPY FILES
JAY HUGHES, Associated Press Writer
(03-18) 14:24:14 - 1998
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- Even as the tide of civil rights swelled in the late 1960s, Southern states linked forces to mount a unified front against integration. "
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The Mississippi Sovereignty Commission was a secret state police force operating from 1956 to 1977 to suppress the civil rights movement and maintain segregation. The commission kept files, harassed and branded many as communist infiltrators via agents who were retired FBI, CIA and military intelligence. No one was safe in Mississsippi. A form of the Sovereignty Commission continues today in Mississippi. Ask Haley Barbour.
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