McCarthy Death Prompts Mixed Editorials Across Papers
The Coos Bay Times ran a two column editorial condemning McCarthyism and calling him a warning of intolerance and deceit in America. Readers sent verses about politicians and a Rye New York anthology excerpt recalls anti white prejudice. Thurgood Marshall is noted in a partial continuation.
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Bethesda
Joseph R[cCarthy
Coos Bay
Ore
Times
McCarthy
America
M.P
Letters About Subscriptions and Segregation Beliefs
A letter from Sepulveda Land Corporation’s Helen M. Schrank discusses subscribing to a newspaper and praises The Petal Paper. Another letter advocates absolute segregation, criticizing interracial mixing and urging signs reading "FOR WHITE TRASH ONLY," reflecting contentious views.
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Sepulveda Land Corporation
Helen M. Schrank
Mgr
Valley Market Town
P. D
Fael
Hisself
Christ
Langston Hughes and the Blacklist in American Letters
Bruce Caton recalls Langston Hughes decrying censorship and racial bias that bar Negro writers from publishing, reviewing, lecturing, or even finding readers. He notes editors altering stories to fit race, and lists where black authors live and work, ending with a poem about a colored child facing Jim Crow.
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Bruce Caton
The
Dramatics Guild
South
Hollywood
Mame
Anna Bontemps
Anne Petry
J. Saunders Redding
America
Richard Wright
Paris
Chester Himes
James Baldwin
Giovanni
William Denby
Rome
Ralph Ellison
Frank Yerby
France
Willard Motley
Mexico
Autherine Lucy
University of Alabama
Montgomery
Rev. King
Little Emmet Till
Mississippi
New York
New Orleans
National Assembly
Deep South
Newark
N. J
Omaha
Neb
Oakland
Calif
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N. Y
Philip Sterling
Sam
Jess
Jim
Bill
Bill Alston
North Carolina
Thurgood Marshall
East Side
van Nuys
Mr. East
Wall Street Journal
Psychiatris
Langston Hughes
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