October 17, 1957
Describes the belief that banning racially offensive music and books, such as “Old Black Joe” by Stephen Foster and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, takes away from cultural values.
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Editorial Grist: We Are Not Outnumbered
October 17, 1957
Notes that others agree with the southern stance on segregation, including Governor of North Dakota Arthur Davis and others who attended a demonstration at Craig Air Base.
Editorial Grist: Adlai On Location In Harlem
October 18, 1956
Describes the civil rights efforts of Adlai Stevenson, previous Governor of Illinois and also notes the divisions within government officials on the issue of segregation.
Voice Of The People: No Mystery
October 30, 1958
Describes a speech about integration given by Rev. Charles Kelly of Tuskegee Institute and argues the belief that Black Americans are treated well in the south.
Negro-Sponsored Institute Assailed By Council Speaker
December 13, 1956
Describes that many southern leaders, including Congressmen, disagreed with the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v Board decision and held a meeting in which they aimed to discuss their concerns.
Editorial Grist: Where Negroes Own Cadillacs
October 10, 1957
Describes the belief that Black Americans had better ownership abilities in the south and notes that Bishop Addison of the African Universal Church believed efforts for integration to be negative.
Communists Are Pushing Integration In Our Schools
September 13, 1956
Compares and connects the integration efforts of the NAACP to the Communist Party and exerts the belief that the Communists are pushing for young people to join their endeavors.
Editorial Grist
September 18, 1958
Briefly describes the Supreme Court’s decision to desegregate immediately. (Also, mentions specific names, likely referring to Supreme Court Justices Earl Warren and Hugo Black, whose votes influenced the Brown v Board decision.)
Request To Enter Negro In Mobile School Denied
September 20, 1956
Describes that a white woman named Mrs. Dorothy D. Daponte attempted to enter her Black foster daughter, Carrie Mae McCants, into an all-white public school and was denied.
Asks Negroes Seek God’s Aid, Advice
September 21, 1950
Describes that Bishop W.J. Walls of the African M.E. Zion Church called upon Black Christians to pursue God in their fight against injustice.
Alabama Declines To Present Segregation Briefs
September 23, 1954
Explains that Alabama planned to defy the Supreme Court’s request to desegregate public schools.
Editorial Grist: For Whom Does He Speak?
September 24, 1959
Explains that Ozark Mayor Douglas Brown could lose support from voters due to his attempts to obtain voting equality for Black Americans.
Editorial Grist: Greater Segregation By 1975?
September 24, 1959
Describes the statements from Joseph D. Lohman, treasurer of the state of Illinois and sociologist, that highlighted that segregation in residential areas across the country could become worse in the future. Also, notes the belief that segregation is human instinct.
Abernathy Scores Folsom’s Stand On Segregation
September 30, 1954
Describes a statement from the GOP nominee for governor, Tom Abernathy, who opposed the remark that segregated schools were unequal, which was made by the democratic nominee for governor, James E. Folsom.
Farm Bureau Favors Separate, Equal Facilities
October 2, 1952
Describes that the Alabama Farm Bureau Federation voted to provide separate but equal schools and examines how taxes needed to be implemented in order for farmers not to bear the brunt of the cost.
White Enrollment Up For Tuscumbia Schools
October 4, 1951
Briefly describes that segregated schools in the area received an increase in the number of white students while the number of Black students decreased.
1951 Miss Alabama To Star In Gadsden Minstrel Show
October 4, 1951
Describes that Miss Alabama Jeanne Moody would perform in a minstrel and variety show staged by the Gadsden Exchange Club.
Editorial Grist: South’s Right To Fight
August 4, 1955
Explains the belief that those who oppose integration, specifically those apart of White Citizens Councils, needed to speak out because of the perceived consequences that could ensue from the desegregation of public schools.
Editorial Grist: Arkansas Spoke For The South
August 7, 1958
Explains that Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus, who blocked integration at Central High School in Little Rock, was re-elected by a notable margin.
Editorial Grist: Negro Education Uphold Segregation
August 23, 1956
Describes the perspective of Dr. J.H. White, president of Mississippi Vocational College for Negroes at Itta Bena, who believed that the integration of schools would cause Black students to suffer academically.
Editorial Grist: Negro Gains Endangered
September 10, 1959
Describes the belief that segregation benefits the Black community financially and in the labor force.
Editorial Grist: Not Newsworthy
September 12, 1959
Describes that residents within a Black neighborhood protested a white man building a house within their community and suggests that Black Americans disagree with integration.
Editorial Grist: Segregationist Ministers Are Silent On Issue
July 24, 1958
Describes the belief that pro-segregation ministers needed to advocate for segregation and displays the discriminatory views of Dr. Henry L. Lyon of Montgomery who was the president of the Alabama Baptist Convention.
Editorial Grist: The Truth Will Out
July 30, 1959
Describes the belief that southerners handle racial tension better than northerners and discusses violence that occurred in New York during an NAACP convention.