December 29, 1949
Describes the civil rights efforts of Rep. Brooks Hays of Arkansas who aimed to create equal pay for equal work for Black Americans through the Fair Employment Practices Commission.
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States (typo) Rights Issue Worries Politicians
September 22, 1949
Notes the divide in the Democratic Party between those who advocate for states’ rights and those who pledge themselves to the national party.
Tables For Negroes Held Constitutional
September 30, 1948
Briefly describes that the federal district court upheld Jim Crow’s segregation policy in railroad dining cars.
Editorial Grist: Civil Rights May Be A ‘Hot Potato
July 22, 1948
Describes the congressional approach to dealing with the civil rights legislation suggested during President Truman’s administration.
Editorial Grist: A New Chapter Of Shame
August 12, 1948
Describes opposition to President Truman’s proposal to eventually desegregate the armed services.
Civil Rights
August 19, 1948
Attempts to make a joke about how three Black women would react if the Civil Rights Bill were to be passed.
Editorial Grist: Negro Leadership
August 25, 1949
Points out that two leading Civil Rights activists, Paul Robeson and Walter White, were married to white women.
McCorvey Won’t Go To Convention
June 10, 1948
Describes that Gessner T. McCorvey, chairman of the State Democratic Executive Committee, would not go to convention but would continue his fight against President Truman and civil rights legislation.
Hill Demands Protection State Right
July 1, 1948
Expresses that many southern government leaders were displeased with the efforts to end segregation, poll taxes, and lynching, all of which they argued could be handled by state authorities.
“Drive KKK Out Of Business” Heflin Tells Legionnaires
July 7, 1949
Describes that a Tuscumbia attorney and Howell Thomas Heflin aimed to convince delegates that they needed to help get rid of the KKK and their violent principles.
Editorial Grist: For A Saner Approach
July 7, 1949
Describes the belief that fighting against the Ku Klux Klan with violence is not productive and supports the efforts of Jefferson’ Sherriff McDowell in his investigation of the Klan.
Civil Rights Boomerang
June 3, 1948
Describes the conflicting ideas about segregation and integration in public schools, primarily from the perspective of Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon.
South Lost Influence
March 25, 1948
Explains that the south objected President Truman civil rights program. Also, describes the voting process and provides statistics for how the electoral college functions.
Constitutional Rights
April 22, 1948
Argues that President Truman’s efforts to implement civil rights legislation is unnecessary.
South’s Negro Leaders Hit Disobedience
April 22, 1948
Describes that there were discrepancies between Black leaders on how to handle segregation within a potential military draft.
Learn Why Truman’s Civil Rights Program Will Destroy Alabama: Listen to Local Broadcast
April 22, 1948
Contains an advertisement for a speaker named Walter F. Miller on a local radio station in Florence, AL called WJOI.
Prayer For U.N. Chapel
May 19, 1949
Describes that a temple of worship for all religions and all denominations was to be built by the United Nations and offers prayer over its success.
Governors Dodge Truman’s Plans
February 12, 1948
Describes the efforts of multiple southern governors, especially Mississippi Governor Wright to avoid implementing Truman’s civil rights program by creating and maintaining facilities that were separate but equal.
Southerners Planning New Policy
February 19, 1948
Explains that southern Democrats were displeased with President Truman’s proposed civil rights legislation and that they planned to protest its progress, as well as the northern Democrat’s decisions, at the Democratic National Convention.
Negro Claims Rape By Two Farmers
February 26, 1948
Describes that an investigation was being conducted after a Black woman named Mamie Peterson filed charges of rape against two white men.
South No Longer In Bag For Party
February 26, 1948
Describes the disputes between southern governors and the national Democratic party as President Truman pursued a civil rights program and the impact those disputes could have on elections.
Edmund Blair Against Truman’s Civil Rights
March 11, 1948
Conveys a statement from a Democratic candidate for the presidential elector named Edmund Blair who explains that he will not consider any candidates for president or vice-president who endorse civil rights legislation.
Frank Murphy Held On Murder Charge
March 14, 1946
Briefly explains that a Black man named Frank Murphy was being charged with first degree murder after the death of a Black man named Nelson Scruggs.
Editorial Grist: Not Judicially Honest
January 29, 1948
Describes that Senator Eastland of Mississippi found it unnecessary for the Supreme Court to pass an anti-lynching law and that other people within the area had grown distrusting of the Supreme Court.