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White supremacy movements

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Walter P. Billings newspaper clippings

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0157
Abstract

Several newspaper clippings relating to the trial of several white men for the murder of Walter P. Billings, an African-America resident of Sumter County, Alabama, on 1 August 1874, and also a lengthy jury charge by U.S. Circuit Court Judge Ballard decrying violence used by the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist organizations against African-Americans.

Dates: 1873

James Austin Anderson papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0078
Abstract

A collection of copies of newspaper clippings and information about Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and its people.

Dates: 1898-1941

John C. Payne papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1114
Abstract

An extensive collection of books, pamphlets, and other literature from civil rights groups, government commissions, and white supremacist organizations during the desegregation era.

Dates: 1950-1980

Wade Hall Collection of Materials from White Supremacist Groups

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4276
Abstract

Small collection of materials from white supremacist groups.

Dates: 1929 - 1944

White Man Or Mulatto?: Beyond Human Belief Pamphlet

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4403
Scope and Contents

One pamphlet containing speeches from The Clansman andThe Leopard's Spots, which were two Thomas Dixon Jr. novels popularized by Southern segregationists. Dixon's raisonneurs expound on the "inability of Blacks to rise above primitiveness" and their increasing "threat" to White civilization following their emancipation.

Dates: 1956

White Supremacy Now and Forever Broadside by E.C. Barnard

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4754
Scope and Contents This broadside contains excerpts from a 1957 speech by E.C. Barnard, a Mobile City Commission candidate and a leader in the local Ku Klux Klan. The document reflects the segregationist rhetoric of the period and serves as a historical artifact of the mid-twentieth-century struggle for civil rights in the American South.The 1957 local election in Mobile was a pivotal moment, with Joseph Langan, a moderate with progressive views on race, running against Barnard. The election also...
Dates: 1957