From the McCain (William D.) Pamphlet Collection; The pamphlet presents the southern rationale for segregation, and describes African Americans as having an inherent deficiency in mental ability, and a natural indolence.
From the McCain (William D.) Pamphlet Collection; The pamphlet stresses the need for segregation among the races to protect the United States from decline as a civilization.
From the McCain (William D.) Pamphlet Collection; The pamplet stresses that only by a separate program of friendly cooperation between the races, with separateness in social life, can the races go forward in promoting the talents of races and can...
From the McCain (William D.) Pamphlet Collection; The pamphlet stresses segregation is a successful system, because it is based on the realization that the races get along best when they are not forced to mingle socially.
From the McCain (William D.) Pamphlet Collection; The author concludes that segregation between African Americans and Causcasian Americans is the only practical solution to prevent the deterioration (racial decay) of both races.
From the McCain (William D.) Pamphlet Collection; In this pamphlet, Landry asserts that integrationists are trying to reunite the races that God separated in the Old Testament story of the Tower of Babel. He asserts that new anthropological and...
From the McCain (William D.) Pamphlet Collection; To prevent the decline of civilization by racial mixing, the American people need to be educated against the twin evils of world Jewry and Communism, destroyers of the Nordic race.
From the McCain (William D.) Pamphlet Collection; In this pamphlet Carey Daniel contends that God created segregation. He uses Old and New Testament quotations to support his argument that Africans were turned black due to the transgressions of...
From the McCain (William D.) Pamphlet Collection; In the pamphlet, Sass argues that segregation is an American institution and that the Civil Rights movement is a Communist propaganda machine dedicated to weakening the United States through...
From the Campbell (Will D.) Papers; Essay written by Campbell in which he addresses the topics of race relations and Christian action toward those who support segregation. He notes that Christians should embrace the differences among humans and...
From the Campbell (Will D.) Papers; Copy of a typewritten letter from Will Campbell to Rev. Aubrey Brown, dated March 14, 1957, sent in response to an inquiry by Brown. Campbell discusses several instances of harassment of members of the clergy as...
Zoya Zeman's senior thesis was written after her participation in the Mississippi Freedom Project in the summer of 1964. Putting her work into context, she begins with a description of the background history of Mississippi. Zeman then recounts her...
From the Talmadge (Eugene) Pamphlets Collection. Campaign pamplet for Eugene Talmadge in his 1942 race for re-election as governor of Georgia. In "Non-Partisan Picture of Race Mixing in South," Talmadge berates Ellis Arnall, his opponent, for...
From a letter from President William D. McCain to the students, faculty and staff regarding the desegregation of the university. The letter appeared in the Student Printz on September 6, 1965. Image featured in Dearly Bought, Deeply Treasured on...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Louisiana governor John McKeithen and President Richard Nixon are being shoved aside by the Supreme Court, which is depicted as a man in a suit labeled, "Desegregate now."
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Richard Nixon is nervous and uncertain as he rides in the back seat of a car driven by Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger, who is holding a sign that reads, "Immediage...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Jon Kennedy. Georgia Governor (and later Lieutenant Governor) Lester Maddox stands behind the counter of a cafeteria (restaurant). The counter is labeled "Maddox political cafeteria." Maddox...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on February 27, 1991 in the city hall of Corinth, Mississippi with Mayor Edward S. Bishop, Sr. Bishop was born in Starkville, Mississippi on December 11, 1907. In 1926, he completed high school at Jackson...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on August 29, 1991 with Mr. Richard Boyd and on September 29, 1992 with Mrs. Earline Boyd. Mr. Boyd was born on July 21, 1916 in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. He graduated from Eureka High School in 1935. ...
