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Newspaper
Petal Paper
Location
Petal, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1957
Page
3
A preview page highlights excerpts from a forthcoming booklet of editorials from this paper and East Side column comments. It will contain about twenty five editorials and related notes. The price is fifty cents.
A Mississippi student-era piece extols U.S. Senator James Oliver Eastland as 100 percent red blooded and a real cool cat. The write up mocks opponents and media, defends Eastland against charges of subversion, and praises his stance on race, industry, and oath interpretation within a Southern rights frame.
An early notice describes a rumored organization in Hattiesburg tied to white supremacist activity. It recounts an April incident near Owl Drug Store where three white youths attacked three Black adolescents with knives, prompting a pursuit toward the police station.
A Civil Rights era letter details four violent harassment events in Hattiesburg on May 1 and May 27. Negro residents report egging and beating by white youths, along with police inaction and fear of escalating mob violence. The piece links these acts to the emergence of a white supremacist “Bigger and Better Bigots Bureau” and warns of further danger.
A 1956 editorial argues overtones of social and racial issues, rejecting the phrase am I my brother s keeper while affirming a duty to each other, emphasizing that neighbors and brothers hold more value than money.
A February 9 1956 column questions Heaven’s openness for Mississippi Negroes. It humorously imagines St Peter at a gate asking about race, voting, and status, proposing a two Heaven idea or segregation in Heaven, and ends noting Mississippi bias likely to fail entrance.
In a June 14 1956 column a writer mocks a fat cockroach named Jim as a symbol of today’s politicians and laments ants invading the office. A May 10 1956 note recalls Citizens Council meeting members and the critique of paying dues to claim superiority.
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