Gov. Phil Bryant attended Council McCluer High School, a segregationist academy set up by the racist Citizens Council, his junior (left) and senior years of high school. The Mississippi Legislature gave financial assistance, now called vouchers, to white families to send their children to these private schools.
Dewey Phillip Bryant, now the governor of Mississippi, said in his senior Council McCluer High School yearbook that there was no need to worry about the future; it would come soon enough.
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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