Walter Coats Givhan (May 7, 1902 – February 18, 1976) was an American politician. An unrepentant

white supremacist White supremacy or white supremacism is the belief that white people are superior to those of other Race (human classification), races and thus should dominate them. The belief favors the maintenance and defense of any Power (social and polit ...

, he served in both houses of the Alabama Legislature, where he was a strong proponent of

racial segregation Racial segregation is the systematic separation of people into race (human classification), racial or other Ethnicity, ethnic groups in daily life. Racial segregation can amount to the international crime of apartheid and a crimes against hum ...

. He was a Democrat and a Methodist. He was a member of the state sponsored

Alabama State Sovereignty Commission The Alabama State Sovereignty Commission was a government agency established in the U.S. state of Alabama to combat desegregation, which operated from 1963 to 1973. The agency doubled as an intelligence network, and kept files on civil rights acti ...

, a state government organization created to fight the federal government mandated integration in schools after ''

Brown v. Board of Education ''Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka'', 347 U.S. 483 (1954), was a landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segrega ...

'' (1954).

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* , has images {{DEFAULTSORT:Givhan, Walter C. 1902 births 1976 deaths 20th-century American politicians Democratic Party members of the Alabama House of Representatives People from Dallas County, Alabama Alabama Dixiecrats Methodists from Alabama