Northern Alabama White Citizens' Council
The Northern Alabama White Citizens' Council also called the Northern Alabama Citizens' Council broke from the Alabama Citizens Council which was part of the White Citizens' Council network of segregationist organizations of the 1950s. The group’s executive secretary was Asa Carter, a radio commentator in Birmingham who took a more militant approach in the White resistance movement by identifying the Jew as instigator of the racial troubles in the South.
Asa Carter organized the group on November 12, 1955.[1]
In 1956 they issued a newspaper call The Southerner.
Attack on Nat King Cole
Asa Carter started a campaign against Negro bee-bop and rock & roll music. Carter and his group attempted to persuade radio stations not to play those tunes. On April 10, 1956 three men apparently affiliated with the Citizens Council attacked Black musician Nat King Cole who was preforming before a White audience in the Birmingham Municipal Auditorium. Local police came to his rescue and Cole later finished his performance.[2]
