Object Type: Folder
In Folder: Historical Manuscripts
From the Citizens' Council / Civil Rights Collection. A postcard showing the headquarters building of the Citizens' Councils of America in Jackson, Mississippi. The photograph on front was taken by Bob Hand.
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From the Citizens' Council / Civil Rights Collection. An official publication of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan of Mississippi regarding President Lyndon B. Johnson after he spoke out againt the Ku Klux Klan. The publication denounces the civil rights movement and communism while praising the Klan as righteous Christians.
April 1964
From the Citizens' Council / Civil Rights Collection. A pamphlet titled "The Citizens' Council: A History" containing an address by Robert B. Patterson, Secretary of the Citizens' Councils of America and Executive Secretary of the Association of Citizens' Councils of Mississippi, given at the Annual Leadership Conference of the Citizens' Council of America held in Jackson, Mississippi on October 26, 1963.
26 October 1963
From the Citizens' Council / Civil Rights Collection. A pamphlet titled "Principle of the United Klans of America" regarding the basic beliefs of the Ku Klux Klan.
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From the Citizens' Council / Civil Rights Collection. A flyer regarding the Patriotic American Youth, an anti-communism group in Mississippi comprised of high school and college students.
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From the Citizens' Council / Civil Rights Collection. An document titled "Current Communist Goals" published by the Patriotic American Youth, an anti-communism group in Mississippi comprised of high school and college students. The document list alleged communist goals which were taken from W. Cleon Skousen's text "Naked Communist."
1960-1965
From the Citizens' Council / Civil Rights Collection. A pamphlet titled "The Road Ahead," an address by Robert B. Patterson, Secretary of the Citizens' Councils of America and Executive Secretary of the Association of Citizens' Councils of Mississippi, presented at the Annual Leadership Conference of the Citizens' Councils of America in Montogomery, Alabama on January 15, 1965. The author compares the Communist Platform of 1928 to the Civil Rights Bill of 1964, and claims that communism is the reason for the current state of civil rights affairs in the United States.
15 January 1965
From the Citizens' Council / Civil Rights Collection. A pamphlet titled "Views of a Southern Negro Told" written and published by Jessie Gillespie. The pamphlet denounces the NAACP, CORE, SNCC, Martin Luther King, and Aaron Henry and promotes segregation as an answer to the civil rights movement. The author also talks out against communism and claims that Christianity and Communism cannot work together. Booker T. Washington, Dr. George Washington Carver, and Dr. Lawrence Jones are listed as outstanding Black leaders.
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From the Citizens' Council / Civil Rights Collection. A notice from the Confederate States of America regarding Byron de la Beckwith VI being elected in an unanimous vote for the CSA Presidency for a six year term.
06 January 1994
From the Citizens' Council / Civil Rights Collection. A flyer addressing the citizens of Greenwood, MS and surrounding areas. The flyer scorns a boycott organized by the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party against Liberty Cash Grocery and other businesses and calls the boycott communism in action.
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