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
2. Now, Mr. Blossom you get your Bible and see who "Gods chosen people are". We are his "called out people". We are his "special people". We are his peculiar "people". We are not suppose to stick the Negro heathen in our schools and churches. The Negro heathen is supposed to be servants of servants. "Forever and forever". The heathens time was just to be 2520 years. And that was just to try to get the children of Israel to love their God better. "Oh", The Devil has really got Gods people brain washed. The Catholics will tell the ignorant heards of white people, that they are "God chosen people". The Church of Christ (Campbellites) says they are "Christ chosen people". All the Baptist, Methodists, Jehovah Wittness, Seven Day Adventist, and "Oh" Lord I can't commence to name all of them. They all say they are right. Well the Negro heathen is in all of them. And still not satisfied. Mrs. Roosevelt says, why the heathen negro wants in the white schools is their dignity. Well
Metadata URL:: http://digitalcollections.uark.edu/cdm/ref/collection/Civilrights/id/1508
IIIF manifest:: https://digitalcollections.uark.edu/iiif/2/Civilrights:1508/manifest.json
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