https://shoalsblackhistory.omeka.net/items/browse?collection=12&page=2&output=atom2024-03-29T03:06:26-04:00Omekahttps://shoalsblackhistory.omeka.net/items/show/942A September 26, 1963 *Florence Herald* editorial critical of the proposed Civil Rights Bill backed by the Kennedy administration, noting with approval that members of the Alabama delegation in Congress had declared their opposition to the bill "in no uncertain terms." According to the *Herald*, "no one denies that we need to take a look for further ways and means to achieve a better and more charitable philosophy of human equality and fair treatment, but such a good end cannot justify a bad means. Harsh and unjust Federal edicts will never protect the civil rights of anybody because such laws cannot legislate morality or promote good willl"]]>2019-08-27T20:13:05-04:00
Title
"Take a Good Look"
Subject
A September 26, 1963 *Florence Herald* editorial critical of the proposed Civil Rights Bill backed by the Kennedy administration.
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]]>https://shoalsblackhistory.omeka.net/items/show/941A March 26, 1964 *Florence Herald* Report on remarks critical of the Civil Rights Bill by Alabama Senator Lister Hill in the Senate. Hill stated that passage of the Civil Rights Bill "would trample on and destroy rights of Americans on either side of the Continental Divide and on either side of the Mason-Dixon Line." Hill also reminded the senators that the race problem and civil rights was no longer just a Southern problem, but "is violently alive in New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Ohio, Illinois, California, and many other places far north and west of the Mason-Dixon Line." Furthermore, said Hill, Southern convictions on race were born from experience, and race relations could never be improved by forcefully "shackling one man to another."]]>2019-08-27T20:13:19-04:00
Title
"Hill Continues to Score Civil Rights Measure"
Subject
A *Florence Herald* Report on remarks critical of the Civil Rights Bill by Alabama Senator Lister Hill in the Senate.
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]]>https://shoalsblackhistory.omeka.net/items/show/938A June 4, 1964 *Florence Herald* report on comments by Alabama Senator John Sparkman with respect to "75 or 80 clarifying or technical amendments introduced by Republicans" to the Civil Rights Bill backed by the Johnson Administration, in which Sparkman stated that "there may be some watering-down effect in these amendments, but even with them it is still a bad bill and we Southern Senators are against the bill in its entirety and hope to kill it in its entirety."
According to Sparkman, the passage of the Civil Rights Bill with these proposed amendments would serve as an implied threat to the Southern states to enact civil rights legislation or be "overrun by federal force." Racial problems, according to the Senator, could not be fixed simply by passing legislation.]]>2019-08-27T20:16:10-04:00
Title
"Amendments are No Cure for 'Evils'"
Subject
A June 4, 1964 *Florence Herald* report on comments by Alabama Senator John Sparkman relative to Republican amendments to the Civil Rights Bill backed by the Johnson administration.
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]]>https://shoalsblackhistory.omeka.net/items/show/937An April 11, 1957 Florence Herald editorial on the Civil Rights Bill backed by the Eisenhower administration, which editorial stated, among other things, that "it is good to know that delegations in Congress from southern states are together in their opposition to the so-called civil rights bill now being backed by the Eisenhower administration." The editorial was hopeful that the bill, though it would probably pass the House, would be defeated in the Senate as Southern senators would apply the filibuster, itself "nothing new as civil rights bills are concerned since they have been blocked before and likely will be again."]]>2021-10-06T10:00:28-04:00
Title
"The South and Civil Rights"
Subject
A *Florence Herald* editorial on the proposed Civil Rights Bill backed by the Eisenhower administration.
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]]>https://shoalsblackhistory.omeka.net/items/show/936A June 4, 1959 *Florence Herald* article reporting on Alabama Senator Lister Hill's specific areas of opposition to the Eisenhower administration's proposed Civil Rights Bill, especially its proposed provision of financial assistance to Southern schools which Hill believed believed was an inducement to integrate, stating "his firm belief that the people of the South would not betray, their heritage, their institutions, their way of life for financial assistance under the proposed bill." ]]>2019-08-27T20:18:13-04:00
Title
"Civil Rights Hit by Senator Hill"
Subject
An article reporting on Alabama Senator Lister Hill's opposition to the proposed Civil Rights Bill
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"Negro Ministers Complain to Commissioners"]]>Two reports from the Florence Herald of 1963 on the formation of a bi-racial committee to study and make recommendations in regard to school desegregation and the subsequent complaint of Florence black ministers and committee members Rev. David Tolbert, Rev. M. C. Griffin and Rev. H. Smiley to the Florence City Commission relative to the committee, in which the pastors requested, among other things, "that membership be expanded to include a better cross-section."
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Title
"City to Help form Bi-Racial Committee"
"Negro Ministers Complain to Commissioners"
Subject
A report of the complaint several local black ministers to the Florence City Commission.
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]]>https://shoalsblackhistory.omeka.net/items/show/930An April 16, 1964 campaign ad for Alabama Congressman Bob Jones, who "has always stood up for the South and Alabama against so-called civil rights laws."]]>2019-08-27T20:20:45-04:00
Title
Bob Jones
Subject
An April 16, 1964 campaign ad for Alabama Congressman Bob Jones.
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]]>https://shoalsblackhistory.omeka.net/items/show/929An April 23, 1964 campaign ad by Democratic Governor of Alabama George Wallace who was campaigning on a platform of states' rights and opposition to the Civil Rights Bill, and his Wallace Electors Committee, urging Alabama voters to "Vote for These WALLACE Backed Electors on May 5."]]>2019-08-27T20:20:55-04:00
Title
"Please Help Me Stand up for Alabama and For Constitutional Government."
Subject
An April 23, 1964 campaign ad by George Wallace and his Wallace Electors Committee urging people to vote for the several Wallace backed electors.
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]]>https://shoalsblackhistory.omeka.net/items/show/928An April 16, 1964 *Florence Herald* editorial noting that "Alabama's able senators Lister Hill and John Sparkman, and scores of other forthright Americans" were fighting the upcoming Civil Rights Bill and arguing that the Civil Rights Bill was unconstitutional because "the elements of this bill that place enforcement and grave decisions in the hands of the attorney general . . . will break down the Constitution and prevent the United States from ever returning to its three-branch government as set up by the founding fathers." According to the *Herald*, no citizen should be deprived of the right to vote "because of color, race or creed. But the civil rights bill says nothing about people deprived of voting because of color or sex but would set up federal machinery for controlling state voting and registration laws." ]]>2019-08-27T20:21:10-04:00
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]]>https://shoalsblackhistory.omeka.net/items/show/927A letter to the editor of the *Florence Herald* by Florence American Legion Post No. 11, containing the full text of a resolution passed by the Legion Post on April 9 and published on April 23, 1964, said resolution opposing "the Civil Rights Bill in its every aspect," on the grounds that the "so-called Civil Rights Bill now pending in the Congress of the United States, in many of its provisions, wholly ignores and contravenes the Constitution of the United States, and destroys everything that we have believed, heretofore, to protect us from the complete and absolute power of a Central Government."
The resolution further "expresses its gratitude to Gov. George C. Wallace for the noble effort he is making to safeguard and transmit to posterity the principles of justice, freedom and Democracy bequeathed to us by the founding fathers."]]>2019-08-27T20:21:21-04:00
Title
"Letters to the Editor"
Subject
A letter to the editor of the *Florence Herald* by American Legion Post No. 11, Florence, published on April 23, 1964, protesting the proposed Civil Rights Bil as unconstitutional.
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