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Segregation -- United States

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Address to the People of Hinds County Broadside by John D. Freeman

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4752
Scope and Contents The Address to the People of Hinds County, authored by John D. Freeman in 1865, is a broadside that explores the legal and social status of freedmen in Mississippi during the Reconstruction era. In the address, Freeman acknowledges the constitutional amendments granting formerly enslaved individuals personal liberty and property rights while emphasizing the state’s role in protecting these rights. He particularly focuses on the legal implications of these...
Dates: 1865

Peter Archibald Carmichael papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0280
Abstract

A collection of this Alabama native and Louisiana State University professor's lecture notes, publications, and professional files on subjects including logic, religion, language, labor arbitration, and civil rights/segregation.

Dates: 1931-1974

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

W. L. Gilbert Letters, 1904-1932

 File — Box 4267.002: [Barcode: 1005680108], Folder: 7
Scope and Contents This file contains letters addressed to Professor W. L. Gilbert in Jonesboro, Georgia, regarding a "Directory of Georgia Teachers" that he circulated, or containing references to lists of teachers active in a number of states in the US South, including Florida, South Carolina, Kentucky, and Alabama. In one letter of March 12, 1912, the writer asks to know about available "white male" teachers and says he "Could not use colored at all." Another letter protests details of a listing in the...
Dates: 1904-1932

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