Look ban in St Clair County spurs anti Communist plea
The August 22 1959 ruling by a Circuit Judge in Pel City Alabama banned Look magazine from St Clair County amid charges of distortions in the South racial segregation debate. The suit by the St Clair County Committee for Better Race Relations targeted Look and other publishers alleging untrue, misleading and scandalous material about Southern Congress members and race relations. The document cites editorials and comments connecting Communist influence to racial tensions and calls for integration.
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Pel] City
Alabama
Look Magazine
St. Clair County
South
St. Clair
Congress
Satepey ‘gUebh
Clair County
Davis Lee
Anderson Herald
Anderson
South Carolina
God
America
Eisenhower
Southern Negro Improvement Association of Alabama
Lee
Africa and communism spark religious and racial fears
The piece frames Africa as a strategic theater for Cold War conflict with rhetoric alleging that unresolved Algeria could trigger a West African slide to communism. It cites All African People’s Conference leaders and critics who warn against a “freedom” other powers may misuse, linking it to racial tensions in America.
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Africa
West Africa
Algeria
Russia
Accra
Tom Mboya
Kenya
NAACP Jubilee and Communist Campaigns Mentioned
The text notes NAACP plans for a June 1959 golden jubilee and calls it an event of signal importance. It also cites the August 31 1958 Weekly Communist Worker report of Benjamin J. Davis speaking before the Greater New York Ministerial Alliance, an association of 400 Negro Baptists in the New York area, with concerns about communist influence.
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Pal
NAACP
Communist Worker
Benjamin J. Davis
Greater
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Helen Wood Birnie
Middlewest
Communist Party
Manning Johnson
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Little Rock
Reds
Communist Daily Worker
Arkansas
Moscow
Moogeow
Communist Party In America
National Committee
National Negro Commission
Mrs. Birnie
Communist Front
W.E.B. DuBois
United States
Stalin
DuBois
Joseph Stalin
du Bois
Howard University
Washington, D. C
Helen Wood
Tad Ower
Peta Pintes
White House
Vernment
Polics
Louis Ignatio Pinto
Cotonou
Dahomey
French West Africa
Mount Kisco
New York
Pinto
Warsaw
Peking
Billy James Kargis
Herbert Aptheker
Political Affairs
Aptheker
Communist Journal
Gerald Clark
New York Life Insurance Co
Cape Leyte
Serasota
New York Area
Osprey Ave
Palmer Bank
Palmer
First National Bank and Trust Company OF
Sarasota
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Federal Reserve System
Chevrolet
Altman Chevrolet Co., Inc
Central Ave
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