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
4. "Oh", Margaret Singer got birth control legalized in 1914. What a curse to "God chosen people" that was. The devil can disguise his ways. But St. Luke Ch. 23 verses 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 had to be fulfilled. The more college education a white woman has, the fewer children "she wants". The devil was in politics in 1920 when they let white women in. Well, the negro heathen woman didn't bpter too much in polotics back then. She just kept to the baby incubator business. "But look" in less than 50 years the negro heathing is running Americas politics. Mr. Blossom: Us get down on our knees and cry out to God. Its time, don't you think? "God" is going to says its enough one of these days. Before the negro boys calls for our little white girls, Your truly A friend Mrs. Homer Lassiter
Metadata URL:: http://digitalcollections.uark.edu/cdm/ref/collection/Civilrights/id/1510
IIIF manifest:: https://digitalcollections.uark.edu/iiif/2/Civilrights:1510/manifest.json
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Contributing Institution:: University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Libraries
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