January 18, 1951
Explains that a Civil War Secessionist and secretary Provisional Confederate Congress, Johnson Jones Hooper, received a grave marker after donations from both “Yankees”and “Rebels.”
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Editorial Grist: Handwriting On The Wall
July 18, 1963
Describes the belief that whites in the north oppose integration as much as those in the south and explains that the Kennedy administration needed to acknowledge the white majority.
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.
Editorial Grist: A Negro Looks At Segregation
February 5, 1953
Describes that people within the Black community do not see desegregation as the proper way to improve race relations and create equality because the integration of schools could cause many Black teachers in the south to be without jobs and to lose their salaries.