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A broadside with the Attention in bold bubble letters at the top of the sheet. The item reads<br /><br />
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Attention citizens of Greenwood and surrounding area<br /><br />
The revolutionary forces at work in this area have begun a boycott of certain business establishments in the city of Greenwood.<br /><br />
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This useless troublemaking agitation is being sponsored by a group of draft card burning disloyal pro communist riffraff known as the Mississippi freedom Democratic Party it’s local prime mover is a nigger preacher who runs a shoe repair business on Johnson Street. JD Collins has prospered in Greenwood and he is repaying this town for its goodness to him by trying to destroy it<br /><br />
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We have the manpower and the willpower to remove the scum from the streets but we do not wish to bring this type of trouble to the good name of our fair city. We will not stoop to the level of the trash who seek to promote chaos in our city.<br /><br />
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There are several things which we ask all good citizens both white and colored to do to counteract these troublemakers.<br /><br />
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They picked the time of the year when business is generally slow so as to impress their gullible followers with the success of their efforts. We should all make a special effort to be on the streets of downtown Greenwood as much as possible so as to put the lie to their claims of success. Law-enforcement officials and responsible private citizens will be on hand to see to it that everyone is protected on our city streets.<br /><br />
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The primary object of this so-called boycott is the liberty cash grocery owned by Mr. Sam Killebrew. Mr. Killebrew has been more tolerant with the colored element of his trade and almost any other businessman in town and some of them are rewarding him by trying to destroy his business. Neither he nor in any other businessman can meet the impossible demands of this nefarious group. We should all make a special effort to do some of our grocery buying at the store.<br /><br />
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Any effort at intimidation by this sorry element against any citizen white or colored should be reported to the law or to any responsible citizen and appropriate action will be taken.<br /><br />
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This is communism in action the end justifies the means and they only succeed where ignorance and timidity prevail.<br /><br />
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We worn this group who is not only our enemy but the enemy of all good citizens of this area not to misinterpret our intentions. We are and will remain equipped and ready for any eventuality.<br /><br />
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You can help bust the boycott written printed distributed by a local Civic group

Flyer, Attention Citizens of Greenwood and Surrounding Area

Flyer accusing Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party of communist behavior.

Brochure cover featuring a photograph of Theodore G. Bilbo with his hand in his pocket in a 3-piece suit and the following text.<br /><br />
Mississippi’s <br /><br />
Senior<br /><br />
United States Senator<br /><br />
Theodore G. Bilbo<br />

Campaign Brochure, Mississippi's Senior United States Senator Theodore G. Bilbo

Campaign brochure for Theodore G. Bilbo for his run for United States Senate.

Cover of a brochure published by the council of Federated organizations about their work-study project. In the top area there is a diagram of the state of Mississippi divided into five sections. The main picture of the brochure cover is a young African-American man with a hat reading the book the kings wish.

Brochure, Work-Study Project

Pamphlet with information about a work-study program coordinated by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and Tougaloo College, whereby…

Letter from Earl Johnston Junior to Honorable Herman Glazier, July 23, 1964, on Mississippi state sovereignty commission letterhead.<br /><br />
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The letterhead reads Mississippi state sovereignty commission, new capital building, Jackson, Mississippi governor Paul B. Johnson, chairman<br /><br />
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July 23, 1964<br /><br />
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Memorandum<br /><br />
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To: Honorable Herman Glazier, administrative assistant, office of the governor<br /><br />
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From: director, sovereignty commission<br /><br />
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Subject: communism and race agitators<br /><br />
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We worked several days with mayor W. O. Williford of Drew helping him acting like accumulate information to be aired at a police court hearing. Mayor Willifordwas accumulating reports from Los Angeles and senator Eastlands office as well as the sovereignty commission.<br /><br />
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Tuesday afternoon, over the phone, he advised he was ready and the case would be heard at 10 AM, Wednesday, July 22. We told him we would be responsible for getting press coverage. We called the commercial appeal and the Clarion ledger and told them of the impending hearing and asked that they send reporters. The news that came out of Drew, Thursday morning, perfectly timed with Senator Eastland‘s speech in Senate, dealt and effective blow against those racial agitators with communist backgrounds or associations.<br /><br />
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We would like to recommend again, even more particularly at this time, that Governor Johnson consider making the statement that the FBI should grow with the prestige and reputation of that office in exposing the names of all racial agitators know through FBI files to be associated directly or indirectly with communist organizations. Communism charges are now being heard in New York and Washington, as well as Mississippi. In a sense we would be putting the FBI on a serious spot. They cannot deny the existence of such files because of director who verse earlier statement that can communist have infiltrated the racial movement. If the FBI chooses to remain silent, it could be well consider that the Lyndon Johnson administration is muzzling FBI on purpose to avoid any further proof public proof that the racists Are being led by communist.<br /><br />
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We believe such a statement would be far more effective if issued by the governor; however, if the governor thinks otherwise, the sovereignty commission could issue a statement if he grants permission.<br /><br />
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Signed Earl Johnston, Junior.

Memo, Erle Johnston, Jr. to Herman Glazier, July 23, 1964

Letter from Earl Johnston Junior to Honorable Frank de Barber February 4, 1964.<br /><br />
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The letter is on Mississippi state sovereignty commission letterhead which list the address as new capital building, Jackson, Mississippi governor Ross are Barnett, chairman<br /><br />
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It is addressed to Honorable Frank D Barber, special assistant to the governor, the capital, Jackson, Mississippi<br /><br />
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Dear Frank:<br /><br />
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I’ve read with interest you enclosure from Dr. Claude a Fike pertaining to an anti-communism Institute for teachers. This appears to be an excellent idea it would certainly be far more effective than occasional seminars in Jackson or speakers address small audiences, who already believe in what the speaker has to say.<br /><br />
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In my recommendation to Governor Johnson for sovereignty commission program during his administration, I mentioned that we could operate affectively on $200,000 for the biennium instead of $250,000 under which we are now operating in the $225,000 recommended by the budget commission. This could be done only if the sovereignty commission can use its funds for its own administrative programs and support of such necessary projects as the anti-communism institute. Under my proposal, we can afford the $5000 per year to match the $2000 in outside support mentioned by Dr. Fike<br /><br />
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Sincerely,<br /><br />
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Signed by Earl Johnston Junior. Director

Letter from Erle Johnston, Jr. to Frank D. Barber, February 4, 1964.

Letter sent to Senator Theodore G Bilbo from Floyd Herrington from BelPine Farms, Braxton, Mississippi,<br /><br />
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February 12, 1946<br /><br />
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Senator Theodore G. Bilbo,<br /><br />
Senate office building,<br /><br />
Washington DC,<br /><br />
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My dear Senator,<br /><br />
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Enclosed is my check for $100 to help out on your coming campaign. Also, it is in appreciation of your efforts to defeat Roosevelt’s FEPC measure, a sorry piece of cheap political double-crossing that stinks.<br /><br />
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Would like to suggest and recommend that when the bill comes up to make Roosevelt’s birthday a national holiday that it be amended so as to make two holidays - one for the day of his birth, the other for the day of his death. That would give everybody a chance to celebrate. I regard Roosevelt’s birthday as the blackest day in American history.<br /><br />
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Anybody who can aggravate, exasperate and irritate those New York pinks, reds, and blacks as you have so well and capably done ought to be stationed in Washington permanently, and without the bother of an occasional election.<br /><br />
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Yours very truly,<br /><br />
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Floyd Herrington<br /><br />
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CC mr. RG Wooten Hattiesburg, Mississippi<br /><br />
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Letter, Floyd Herrington to Theodore Bilbo about Bilbo's fight against communism

Letter from Floyd Herrington to Theodore Bilbo about a donation to his campaign and his work on addressing communism in the United States.

The following resolutions were adopted by citizens in Grenada, Mississippi, assembled under the sponsorship of the Lowndes county plan state project of the Mississippi Society Daughters of the American Revolution at the conclusion of an address on communism by Mrs. BL Parkinson of Columbus, Mississippi, January 16, 1951.<br /><br />
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Whereas, the avowed aim of communism is to make the whole world a Soviet Union with Moscow as its capital; and<br /><br />
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Whereas, communists are now working tirelessly to set up their ideology in our own country and are succeeding to an alarming degree; and<br /><br />
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Whereas, their methods of propaganda are so scientific and subtle that our American groups both public and private are infiltrated and poisoned without recognizing what is taking place; and<br /><br />
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Whereas, our people generally are unaware of the inroads already made by dangerous communistic doctrines in labor groups, race groups, youth groups, and religious groups; and<br /><br />
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Whereas, communist now have access to centers, executive, scientific, and industrial that are vital to our national defense; be it<br /><br />
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Resolved, that we recognize the world aim of communism as very real and very perilous; and be it<br /><br />
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Resolved, that we meet zeal for communism with greater zeal for representative government, that we know better our privileges and blessings as American citizens and that we point these out diligently to those we meet; and be it<br /><br />
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Resolved, that we inform ourselves of communistic methods of infiltration and indoctrination and that we expose these methods whereever we have opportunity; and be it<br /><br />
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Resolved, that we work aggressively to arouse every citizen to the threat that communism poses to his personal safety and the American way of life; and be it<br /><br />
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Resolved, that all known communists and there’s sympathizer should be interned in concentration camps until such time as the president and Congress may determine that they are not harmful to our national security; and be it<br /><br />
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Resolved, That copies of these resolutions be sent to the local press, our congressmen, and United States senators, the committee on un-American activities, and chairman of national defense committee of the national Society daughters of the American Revolution.<br /><br />
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Resolutions committee<br /><br />
Grenada county chapter<br /><br />
Lowndes county plan<br /><br />
Mrs. John Rundle <br /><br />
Rodney E Defenbaugh <br /><br />
WO Semmes<br /><br />
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Resolution Against Communism

Letter from John the Rankin to L. e. Faulkner on letterhead from the house of representatives, committee on veterans affairs<br /><br />
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81st Congress<br /><br />
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John E. Rankin, chairman<br /><br />
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House of representatives, U. S.<br /><br />
Committee on veterans affairs<br /><br />
Washington, D. See.<br /><br />
August 30, 1950<br /><br />
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Mr. L. E. Faulkner, president,<br /><br />
Mississippi central railroad company,<br /><br />
Hattiesburg,<br /><br />
MIssissippi.<br /><br />
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Dear Mr. Faulkner: -<br /><br />
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The copy of your letter to honorable John S Wood, chairman of the committee on un-American activities, has just been received.<br /><br />
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Let me say to you that if this country is saved from distraction at the hands of the enemies within our gates, the communist tools of foreign agents, the committee on un-American activities will be due more credit than any other agency others his government.<br /><br />
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It was my amendment to the rules in 1945 that saves the committee, or I might say created it as a standing committee of the house. I also gave it the power to report legislation, which power a special committee did not have.<br /><br />
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On yesterday, we passed a bill that would probably do more to stop the growth and activities of communism in this country than anything else that has ever been done<br />

Letter from Mississippi Congressman John E. Rankin to L. E. Faulkner about Rankin's influence on making the House Un-American Activities Committee a standing committee.

In this letter, Mississippi congressman John E. Rankin writes to Mississippi Central Railroad president L. E. Faulkner about how Rankin's amendment…

The cover of a green pamphlet titled We Are Nourishing Communism<br /><br />
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Address Delivered by L.E. Faulkner<br /><br />
Vice President and General Manager<br /><br />
Mississippi Central Railroad Company<br /><br />
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Before the Rotary Club of Hattiesburg<br /><br />
Hattiesburg, Mississippi<br /><br />
November 2, 1943<br />

We Are Nourishing Communism: Address delivered by L.E. Faulkner, Vice President and General Manager, Mississippi Central Railroad

A letter with the Bill Smith next sentence the American citizens group Hattiesburg, Mississippi April 8, 1946 letter number 15 help! Help keep America American offices in every home in every city town, village, hamlet and farm. To the right is our motto. Put first things first. Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.<br /><br />
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To fellow members of the Bill Smith family:<br /><br />
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Every freedom-loving American should be keenly interested in helping to reestablish and preserve the American way of life as bequeathed to us by our founding fathers and as set forth in the declaration of independence and our constitution with its bill of rights.<br /><br />
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Our Armed Forces fought and gave their lives for the preservation of individual freedom - - the one thing which will keep America American. Individual freedom is gradually slipping away from us. We must not lose it in some form or of national socialism. If we can continue much longer to allow a bureaucratic government to destroy economic freedom, regiment our daily lives and be masters instead of servant of the people, those “certain alienable rights“ which are ours by creation will be lost. If there be any doubt in anyone’s mind as to the dangers now threatening our Republican form of government, that doubt should be removed by reading a statement made by representative Hatton W. SUMNERS, Texas Democrat, who recently announced that he would not be a candidate for election to his 18th consecutive term in the house of representatives.<br /><br />
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Representative SUMNERS, in part, said: “by ignoring principles and the lessons of history, and excepting the theories of men and political expedience for our guidance, we have made , VASSALS of our states and dependents of our people. By concentration of governmental power and drafts upon the federal treasury, we now have a financially “busted“, great piled up mess of governmental confusion beyond human comprehension, impossible of democratic control, extravagant, wasteful, inefficient and by its nature the instrumentality of favoritism, tyranny, oppression and corruption, and the destroyer of the self – reliance and self-respect and governmental capacity of the people, qualities without which no people can remain free.“<br /><br />
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Other great Americans by the by the score have warned us against dictatorship, conceived more than a decade ago, when certain government leaders, aided by the communists and socialists, started the regimental march by stealthily tiptoeing towards the abandonment of government of the people, by the people and for the people.<br /><br />
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American communist or strong in steering positions in some labor organizations, farm organizations, governmental bureaus, educational organizations, colleges, schools, youth organizations, cooperatives, and many other organizations and groups like the American Labor Party and the C.I.O. In fact, there are more than 400 different communist organizations and other organizations with communist entrenched leader hip that are working as pressure groups and helping to enact much of the deficit spending, government controlled and bureau-creating programs as recommended by President Truman in his message to Congress on September 6, 1945. Many of the prominent leaders of the federal counsel of the churches of Christ in America, speaking as representatives of federal counsel which has a membership in excess of 25 million protestant church members in 150,000 local congregations in all parts of our country, are denouncing the private free enterprise system and advocate in an economic system similar to that advocated by Victor G. Reuther, a brother of Walter Reuther - newly elected president of the C.I.O. – United Automobile Workers. Mr. REUTHER recently said: “..... A new American progressive party must propose a pattern of social ownership that will serve to break the controls of monopoly capitalism. And the forms of social ownership it does propose to institute must, in the fashion of the cooperatives and the T.V.A., be absolutely democratic in character.“<br /><br />
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Mr. Louis Budenzs, for years an official of the communist party, and editor of its mouthpiece, “The Daily Worker“, and who embraced religion when he gave up communism has stated that the Communist Party in the United States is a direct arm of the Soviet government. Mr. Budenzs should know. Communism which assumes responsibility for the individual, is a <br /><br />
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Bill Smith Letter No. 15, "Help! Help Keep America American"

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