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==Political organizing==
==Political organizing==
In 1954, Courtney was named chairman of the New Orleans branch of the group called Ten Million Americans Mobilizing For Justice, a defender of [[United States Senate|U.S. Senator]] [[Joseph McCarthy]] of [[Wisconsin]], who was [[Censure|cemsured]] by his fellow senators for his investigations into communist subversion of the U.S. government. That same year, Courtney lost a [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] [[primary]] race for the New Orleans City Council, when deLesseps Story "Chep" Morrison, Sr. (1912-1964), a moderate who still endorsed segregation, was finishing his second term as the [[mayor]]. One of the winners in that council election was the future Lieutenant Governor James E. "Jimmy" Fitzmorris, Jr. In January 955, Mrs. Courtney, the former Phoebe Carolyn Greene (March 13, 1918 – September 14, 1998), launched ''Free Men Speak,'' a bi-monthly newspaper, which was renamed the ''Independent American.'' Courtney traveled a great deal during this period to address like-minded groups around the country while his wife was the managing editor of the newspaper until it was disbanded in 1991..<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sweetliberty.org/beware_metro.html|title=''Beware Metro, Regional Government"|publisher=''Sweet Liberty''|date=August 1973|accessdate=August 17, 2019}}</ref>
In 1954, Courtney was named chairman of the New Orleans branch of the group called Ten Million Americans Mobilizing For Justice, a defender of [[United States Senate|U.S. Senator]] [[Joseph McCarthy]] of [[Wisconsin]], who was [[Censure|cemsured]] by his fellow senators for his investigations into communist subversion of the U.S. government. That same year, Courtney lost a [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] [[primary]] race for the New Orleans City Council, when deLesseps Story "Chep" Morrison, Sr. (1912-1964), a moderate who still endorsed segregation, was finishing his second term as the [[mayor]]. One of the winners in that council election was the future Lieutenant Governor James E. "Jimmy" Fitzmorris, Jr.
In January 1955, Mrs. Courtney, the former Phoebe Carolyn Greene (March 13, 1918 – September 14, 1998), launched ''Free Men Speak,'' a bi-monthly newspaper, which was renamed the ''Independent American.'' Courtney traveled a great deal during this period to address like-minded groups around the country while his wife was the managing editor of the newspaper until it was disbanded in 1991..<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sweetliberty.org/beware_metro.html|title=''Beware Metro, Regional Government"|publisher=''Sweet Liberty''|date=August 1973|accessdate=August 17, 2019}}</ref>
In 1956, Courtney organized a campaign to prevent pro-[[civil rights]] law professor Walter Fischel Gellhorn (1906-1995) of [[Columbia University]] in [[New York City]] from lecturing at [[Louisiana State University]] in [[Baton Rouge]]. Gellhorn was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a long-term board member of the [[American Civil Liberties Union]] as well as a critic of [[segregation]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/record/archives/vol21/vol21_iss13/record2113.35.html|title=Walter Gellhorn, Law Authority, Is Dead at 89|publisher=Columbia.edu|date=December 1995|accessdate=August 15, 2019}}</ref>
In 1956, Courtney organized a campaign to prevent pro-[[civil rights]] law professor Walter Fischel Gellhorn (1906-1995) of [[Columbia University]] in [[New York City]] from lecturing at [[Louisiana State University]] in [[Baton Rouge]]. Gellhorn was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a long-term board member of the [[American Civil Liberties Union]] as well as a critic of [[segregation]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/record/archives/vol21/vol21_iss13/record2113.35.html|title=Walter Gellhorn, Law Authority, Is Dead at 89|publisher=Columbia.edu|date=December 1995|accessdate=August 15, 2019}}</ref>