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.
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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.
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.
Letter To The Editor
July 31, 1952
Describes that Gessner T. McCorvey, chairman on the Democratic Executive Committee of Alabama, disagrees with proposed civil rights legislation.
Editorial Grist: Vote ‘Yes’ On Amendment 2
August 2, 1956
Advises citizens in the area to vote “yes” on an amendment to maintain segregation in public schools and “no” on an amendment that would increase taxes.
Editorial Grist: A Reasonable Request
June 6, 1963
Expresses anger toward integration, particularly at the request from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. for President Kennedy to accompany a young Black woman as she began studying at the University of Alabama.
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.
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.
A Report From George C. Wallace, Governor of Alabama
May 16, 1963
Conveys the issues George Wallace wished to see addressed during his time as governor of Alabama and also describes his desire to reinforce and maintain segregation.
Editorial Grist: Supreme Court Ruling On Segregation
May 20, 1954
Expresses rage toward the Supreme Court for enforcing desegregation in certain areas across the United States.
Editorial Grist: What About The Negroes Themselves?
May 27, 1954
Describes the belief that Black children would not benefit from integrated schools because they would still not be treated as equals.
Editorial Grist: Playing Into Their Hands
June 1, 1961
Expresses the belief that violence against Civil Rights activists, particularly those known as the “Freedom Riders”, would not be productive in the effort to legally maintain segregation.
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.
Integration Makes Slow Progress
February 13, 1964
Explains the perception that the implementation of laws regarding integration by the Supreme Court were unwanted by white Americans across the nation and that Congress needed to focus on other important issues.
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.
Put South Above Any Political Party
January 29, 1948
Explains that Alabama Democrats conveyed to national party leaders that they were going to be more loyal to segregation, maintaining a belief that it was a southern right, than they were going to be to the party’s decisions regarding segregation as they arose on national levels.
Questions And Answers Show Up Civil Rights Bill
January 30, 1964
Contains posed questions and answers that analyze the Civil Rights Bill and the inferred definition of discrimination, and the two participants draw the conclusion that the bill is unjust and would result in tyranny.
Race Ruling Is Challenged By 5 Southern States
January 26, 1956
Describes the efforts of Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, Mississippi, and Virginia in their opposition of civil rights legislation by declaring their rights as sovereign states. Also explains that the states plan to implement incentives to maintain segregation and punishments for those who support organizations such as the NAACP.
Letters to the Editor: Decatur Area Man Has All the Answers
May 11, 1963
Describes a Decatur resident vouching to keep desegregation in place. He also says that ‘negroes’ are less developed and meant to be separate from whites.