Mrs. Homer Lassiter Defends Segregation

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Collection:: Land of (Unequal) Opportunity: Documenting the Civil Rights Struggle in Arkansas
Title:: Mrs. Homer Lassiter Defends Segregation
Publisher:: Fayetteville, Ark. : University of Arkansas Libraries
Date of Original:: 1958-09-25
Subject:: African Americans--Arkansas
Civil rights--Arkansas
Race discrimination--Arkansas
Segregation--Arkansas
Location:: United States, Arkansas, 34.75037, -92.50044
Medium:: letters (correspondence)
Type:: Text
Format:: application/pdf
Description:: Letter from Mrs. Homer Lassiter providing biblical justification for status of blacks as second-class citizens, and other social commentary.
Integration -- Desegregation -- African-Americans -- Blacks -- Little Rock Central High School -- Little Rock (Ark.) -- Religion -- Little Rock -- Pulaski
Black oak, Ark. Sept. 25-58 Mr. Virlge Blossom Dear Mr. Blossom, I have got to write to you. I have read the news papers and listen to the news on my radio until I am dying to put in my 2 cents worth. Now, Mr. Blossom Please read Isaiah 56:10 & 11. Now, this is our preachers of our day. They will stand in our costly modern church houses and try to please the devil. And he is in our people in so many ways. The preachers have a time trying to suit all of them. "Ah" But just so we feather our own nest. They must ne very careful. Now, here is my 2 cents worth (4 cents) I suggest you and Mr. Faubus move to use all them big church houses ther in Little Rock for school houses I know Jesus would be so glad. And teach the Bible (Gods word) ever day. Throw a-way all them old devil inspired history books, especially all of them that brain washes our little white kids that Old Abe Lincoln was a good man or a smart man. He was an old wallking mad devil. He was a disgrace to God.
Metadata URL:: http://digitalcollections.uark.edu/cdm/ref/collection/Civilrights/id/1507
IIIF manifest:: https://digitalcollections.uark.edu/iiif/2/Civilrights:1507/manifest.json
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Contributing Institution:: University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Libraries
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