September 14, 1961
Explains that Governor Folsom, who was running for a third term, claimed he would defend segregation but that his previous actions did not support that sentiment.
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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
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.)
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.
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.
Editorial Grist: Cloud Of Lunacy Begins To Break
October 10, 1963
Describes a boycott (The Birmingham Campaign) that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. planned to conduct in Birmingham and notes that two Black men, Gaston (a funeral home owner) and Gaston (a lawyer), did not support the efforts.
School Boards Urged To Resist
August 11, 1966
Explains that school boards were told that it was within their rights to maintain segregation despite federal law and also describes the segregationist views of Governor George C. Wallace.
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.
Negro Major Rips Leaders “Frauds”
August 22, 1963
Describes the perspective of Major Hughes Alonzo Robinson, who believed that civil rights demonstrations were not beneficial for the Black community and that they needed to wait for proper legal processes to be conducted.
Editorial Grist: A Nisei Speaks To Negroes
August 22, 1963
Describes the idea that the Black community needed to better themselves and their environments before receiving equal rights and is explained from the perspective of a Japanese-American.
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 Leadership
August 25, 1949
Points out that two leading Civil Rights activists, Paul Robeson and Walter White, were married to white women.
Editorial Grist: Civil Rights’ Fraud
August 25, 1960
Describes that the Democrats and Republicans gathered in Congress were attempting to use the civil rights issue for political gain and were prolonging the passage of any useful legislation.
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: Church Integration
August 25, 1960
Describes disagreement with a kneeling protest conducted by the NAACP that took place in Atlanta churches.
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.
Wallace Thrills A Crowd of 5,000 Here
September 5, 1963
Describes a rally held by Governor Wallace where he declared that he would continue to defy federal law and attempt to maintain segregation in public schools, specifically at a white school in Tuskegee.
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: Negro Gains Endangered
September 10, 1959
Describes the belief that segregation benefits the Black community financially and in the labor force.
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: 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.
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.