Newspaper Advertisement, Citizens' Council, 1964

This newspaper advertisement represented the philosophy of the Citizens' Councils, an organization that resulted from the efforts of the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission to defend segregation and white political, economic, and social supremacy. Although begun by the state of Mississippi, ordinary white citizens used the Citizens' Councils to voice anti-integration and anti-equality sentiments. The Citizens’ Councils began in Jackson, Mississippi in 1956, but its rhetoric, which encouraged whites to take back America, spread to other states and chapters were established nationwide. This advertisement appeared during the 1964 Democratic Convention in which the Mississippi Freedom Democratic party attempted to become the Mississippi delegates. The ad invoked Thomas Jefferson in support of the group's segregationist views.

Item information:
periodical
Created 1964-08-24 in Atlantic City, New Jersey
1 pages, 8.5 x 11

Atlantic City Press
Written by Bob Howie

Published in Atlantic City, NJ

Archive information:
Tougaloo College Archives - T-90.14
MFDP, folder Folder 1

Record 152

Brown University Tougaloo College STG