October 30, 1950
Highlights statements made by Walter White, secretary of the NAACP, regarding racism in the United States and changes that needed to be made to encourage Black citizens to vote
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Editorial Grist: Rights For Whites
October 27, 1960
Describes the belief that the rights of white Americans needed to be protected by the federal government because Black Americans were granted more freedoms.
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.
Editorial Grist: Jim Folsom Comes Out For Segregation
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.
States (typo) Rights Issue Worries Politicians
September 22, 1949
Notes the divide in the Democratic Party between those who advocate for states’ rights and those who pledge themselves to the national party.
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: 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: 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.
Civil Rights Boomerang
June 3, 1948
Describes the conflicting ideas about segregation and integration in public schools, primarily from the perspective of Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon.
Republicans Look For Control Of The South
June 20, 1957
Argues that Republicans were pushing for Civil Rights in an effort to gain control of the south and for political gain; particularly analyzes the efforts of Vice President Richard Nixon.
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.
Constitutional Rights
April 22, 1948
Argues that President Truman’s efforts to implement civil rights legislation is unnecessary.
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: Gyrating John Gyrates Again
January 15, 1953
Describes that Senator John Sparkman made differing promises in regard to restricting and expanding civil rights during his multiple campaigns and explains that voters will recognize his inconsistencies.
Ike And Republican Congressmen Chang (typo) On Civil Rights
January 23, 1958
Describes the belief that Republican President Eisenhower had become reluctant in pursuing civil rights legislation and had silenced himself as a result of losing the Black vote to his Democratic opponent.
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.