Citizens' Council Radio Forum

 

The Citizens' Council, founded in Indianola, Mississippi in 1954 following the Brown v. Board decision, was very powerful in working to maintain segregation in Mississippi. The Citizens' Council radio Forum ran from 1957-1966 and features dozens of national and Mississippi politicians, including John Stennis, James Eastland, George Wallace, and Strom Thurmond, and covers topics ranging from reaction to the Civil Rights Act to the fear of Communism. Mississippi State University Libraries is the only repository who has the complete run of the Forum; thanks to a $25,000 Recordings at Risk grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources, the original open reel magnetic audio tapes were digitized by the Northeast Document Conservation Center and are now available to researchers.

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10th anniversary of Supreme Court decision in Brown vs. Board of education.

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1954--Supreme Court decision.

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1957 Civil Rights Act and related court cases.

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1957 Civil Rights Act--court decisions.

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1964 fall term of U.S. Supreme Court.

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2 most important issues before Senate--Civil Rights act and Bible reading and prayer in public schools.

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5th Circuit Court of Appeals--cases on integration New Orleans schools,transportation systems, public schools.

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Address to Mississippi legislature--our present military situation in Vietnam and future.

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Anti-riot bill.

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Assassination of President Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald.

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August 28 march on Washington.

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A woman's viewpoint on the issues of the South.

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Balanced budget.

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Bill to create a commission on human resettlement.

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Bill to create a commission on human resettlement.

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Bill to curb powers of Supreme Court.

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Biology of the race problem.

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California views on Little Rock and Supreme Court decisions.

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Centralization of power, trends against.

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Circuit riders, inc.

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Citizens' Council survey of Jackson, Mississippi.

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Citizens' Council survey of Jackson, Mississippi.

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Civil defense program--church implications.

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Civil Rights act.

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Civil Rights act of 1963.

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Civil Rights bill.

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Civil Rights bill.

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Civil Rights bill.

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Civil Rights bills.

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Civil Rights bills.

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Civil Rights bills.

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Civil Rights bills.

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Civil Rights bills.

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Civil Rights demonstrations.

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Civil Rights legislation.

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Civil Rights legislation.

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Civil Rights legislation.

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Civil Rights legislation.

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Civil Rights legislation.

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Civil Rights Legislation and the Constitution.

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Civil Rights legislation--views of Hawaii

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Civil Rights proposal.

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Civil Rights proposal.

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Civil Rights workers in Mississippi.

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College loyalty oaths.

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Commentary on socialist activities of the school.

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Comments on the outcome of the Presidential election.

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Committee on Un-American Activities and its functions. Also William Colmer, John Bell Williams, Jamie Whitten.

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Communism.

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Communism and Civil Rights.

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Communism and the Civil Rights movement.

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Communism in the U.S. and Fulbright Memorandum

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Communism on the map.

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Communist agitation and riot tactics in the U.S.

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Communist exploitation of the churches in the U.S.

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Communist infiltration in Vietnam protest movement and Civil Rights movement.

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Communist influence behind the racial demonstrations and Civil Rights movement-recent development.

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Communist involvement in Civil Rights movement.

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Communists in racial incidents.

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Communist threat of U.S. muzzling the military--Fulbright Memorandum.

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Communist threat to U.S.

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Communist use of churches--nation council of churches of Christ in America.

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Concern over civil rights bill-involvement of communism with the civil rights movement.

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Connections between freedom riders and Cuba.

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Conservative trend on college campuses.

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Constitutional government and states rights.

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Constitutional Rights--Civil Rights

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Crisis in Rhodesia.

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Cuban crisis-Florida viewpoint. Also economic and military aspects.

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Cuban military build-up.

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Cuban situation.

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Cuban situation.

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Cuban situation--U.S. policies and the Factors for Castro Committee.

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Cuban situation--variance in intelligence reports.

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Current crisis in race relations--Harlem, Rochester,etc.

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Current Status of schools in Alabama.

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Deficit spending.

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Demonstration before the march from Selma to Montogomery--affadavits presented to congress.

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Demonstrations in Selma.

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Doctrine of interposition enacted by Barnett at Ole Miss.

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Education in D.C.

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Education work of the Citizens' Council.

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Effect of agitation on southern political opinion.

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Effect of Civil Rights legislation on business, especially in the South.

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Effect of Civil Rights on the presidential election.

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Effect of Kennedy sending federal troops into Ole Miss in future national elections.

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Effects of Civil Rights act on average American.

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Effects of Civil Rights legislation on South in the 1960 election.

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Executive order on discrimination in housing.

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Extent of communist exploitation of the churches.

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Factors affecting internal security.

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Farm Problem.

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Federal aid to education.

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Federal Civil Rights commission.

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Federal Government forcing school integration.

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Federal intervention in Mississippi affairs.

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Forceable integration of public schools.

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Foreign aid.

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Freedom Academy.

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Freedom of choice in education.