- Collection:
- Land of (Unequal) Opportunity: Documenting the Civil Rights Struggle in Arkansas
- Title:
- Mississionary Baptist Minister Defends Segregation as Biblical
- Publisher:
- Fayetteville, Ark. : University of Arkansas Libraries
- Date of Original:
- 1958-04-09
- Subject:
- African Americans--Arkansas
Civil rights--Arkansas
Race discrimination--Arkansas
Segregation--Arkansas - Location:
- United States, Arkansas, 34.75037, -92.50044
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Personal letter from R.A. Raney to Herbert L. Thomas providing biblical justification and constitutional authority in support of continued racial segregation.
Racism -- Segregation -- Desegregation -- African-Americans -- Blacks -- Little Rock Central High School -- Little Rock (Ark.) -- Carthage (Ark.) -- Missionary Baptist Church -- Communism -- Carthage -- Dallas
tion the equal protection of the laws. Árticle XV. Section I. "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall no t be denied or abrifged by the United States or any State on accounto pf color, Race, or previous condition of servitude 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropiate legislation. "The Negro has had all provided by these Articles XIV adn XV. since the Civil war." But Desegregation or Integration has never been, during all time, the right of the Negro, or other Coloured races, to integrate or have social equality with the white races, and this condition was fixed by Almight God. This matter is not subject to the will of the people, which has been proven by numerous Bible examples. So the only thing that will settle this matter is to let the raced stay separate, as God made them, and has been practiced through the ages. Integration is unfair to all races, And the penalty for violation has been shown in the Bible to just as applicable to one race as another. If the NAACP is not an undercover Communist organization, it is certain that what the N.A.A.C.P. is doing exactly suits the Communist. I think that was made plain in 1957, when President Eisenhower rejected a 60 Negro delegation which called on him, to either come South or send Mr Nixon, to issue a new Eisenhower doctrine. Immediately fol- lowing Mr Eisenhower's rejection of the Negro delegation, the Communist called a Conven- tion, which was reported in the Arkansas Democrat, Febuary 10, 1957, headed: "Commies leapt into the race issue, and scold Ike." They stated that, said Convention was the first that had been called in 7 years. As I see it, this plain proof that Communist are behind the whole agitation on Integration in this country. That Communist Convention claimed to have 350 delegates in the meeting. I think the time has come, for our school boards to refuse to admit Negroes in our schools. If you know anything in the Constitution that justifies the Supreme Court's order, wi will you please point it out to me. Plese tell me how, or in what way, are we under obligat ion to obey a Court order, that has no Constitutionality behind it? I write this letter, as an American Citizen, exercizing my right to free speech. Kindly your, as I hope in Christ. Elder R.A. Raney - Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.uark.edu/cdm/ref/collection/Civilrights/id/1489
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.uark.edu/iiif/2/Civilrights:1489/manifest.json
- Additional Rights Information:
- Please contact Special Collections for information on copyright.
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Libraries
- Rights:
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