June 11, 1950
Describes that schools considered separate but equal in the south were actually one billion dollars different and that the south could not afford to make facilities equal.
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Dixie Sees Destruction Of Its Schools If Segregation Banned; Truman Stand Told
March 16, 1950
Describes that specific southern states actively pursued avoiding integration in all areas of their communities through legal pathways and explains a brief that was critical of integration and maintained the importance of facilities being separate but equal.
Fight Expected In Attempt To Cut Ga. State School Funds
February 15, 1951
Describes that Governor Talmadge refused to integrate schools and proposed a budget that would suspend funding to public schools with Black students
Negroes May Be Forced Out Rural Georgia
October 23, 1950
Explains that politician Roy Harris believed that Black citizens in rural areas would be driven from their homes if schools were integrated and also that he thought organizations suchas the NAACP were harming the Black community
War Casualty
December 12, 1950
Depicts that a man named Ensign Jesse L. Brown, the first Black man to serve as a naval flier, was killed in the line of duty
Recruited Ned Carson
December 14, 1950
Depicts a soldier named Ned Carson and notes that he was stationed at Camp Atterbury in Indiana
Pvt. Frank T. Lane
December 18, 1950
Depicts a Black man named Frank T. Lane who had just completed his Air Forcebasic training and was being moved to a base
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.
Editorial Grist: The Integration Showcase Of America
November 26, 1964
Describes that efforts to integrate schools in Washington DC seemingly failed and questions the success of desegregation.
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.
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: Kennedy Integration
September 26, 1963
Notes that the Black child (Avery Hatcher) of Associated Press Secretary Andrew Hatcher would attend school with Caroline Kennedy.
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.
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: 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.
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: 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.
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: 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: School Mixing
June 3, 1965
Expresses the belief that forced integration in schools would not be beneficial and explains the idea that schools should be separated residentially, even if that results in inequality.
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.