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Series I:
Sub-series 4:
Appendix I.4A: Listing of printouts from microfilm reel 17, news clippings from the files of the Subversive Unit of the Investigative and Identification Division of the Alabama Department of Public Safety, 1963-1965 (bulk 1965)
Reel 17,
1. Political
cartoon: “Everything Hasn’t Been Cleaned Up” (
2. “Press
Hit on
3. “Andrews Says Black Should Be First Committee Witness”
4. “The Vote Bill: Opposing Views,” Christian Science Monitor, April 14, 1965
5. “Klan Quality”
6. “Visitors
to
7. “Governors Ask Federals for Flexibility on Integration”
8. “A
Minister and 13 Girls,”
9. George
Dixon, “What a Shame,” [
10. “FBI’s Hoover Deserves Thanks, Support of True Americans,” Atlanta Times, November 21, 1964
11. “A Mighty Victory”; “The Klan, the Star and Mr. White”; “Mob vs. Human”; “How to Prevent Crime,” all Indianapolis Star, [1965]
12. “Beaten
Minister Dies,” [
13. Ralph De Toledano, “Harry Truman Speaks Out,” Human Events, May 8, 1965
14. “Final
Action on Voting Rights Seen This Week,”
15. “KKK Hits
Charges; Vigil Set,”
16. Political
advertisement,
17. “Sickening
Spectacle in
18. “What’s Up
in
19. “Open Book
in
20. Bob Ingram,
“Special Session Expected on Feb. 9; Wallace Wants It As Short As Possible,” [?
21. “Back Wallace’s Proposal,” [?Tuscaloosa News]
22. “The
Governor Briefs Us,”
23. “
24. “We Stand with Governor Wallace”
25. “
26. Paul Good,
“States Rights Partisan
27. Paul Good,
“Peace at Stake in
28. Photos:
Martin Luther King assaulted in
29. Kelso Sturgeon, “Prayer Vigil Not Confined to Praying,” [dateline March 11, (1965)]
30. “Reds and the Negro: How Civil-Rights Groups, FBI Cope with Communist Fringe,” National Observer, July 27, 1964
31. “Truce in
32. “Race Violence: Hidden Bombs,” Christian Science Monitor, April 5, 1965
33. Al
Kuettner, “March ‘Incidents’ Admitted, But Wholesale Sex Denied,”
34. “Voting
Plans Draw Fire,” [?
35. “A Week
With Civil Rights Forces in
36. “Federal Lynching Law”
37. Letter to
editor on race relations in
38. “18,000
Hear King at
39. “McComb,” Ch[ristian Science Monitor], November 21, 1964
40. James J. Kilpatrick, “A Country’s Patience Running Out,” Birmingham News, January 29, 1965
41. “Judge Hare Raps Kennedy Suits as ‘Reprisal’”
42. James
Chisum, “Integration Main Topic of
43. Rowland Evans and Robert Novak, “Selma Whites, Negroes Talking, But Problems Not Yet Solved, Birmingham News, [summer 1965]
44. Howard
James, “
45. “No Later
Than,”
46. “Futile Act
of
47. “You Don’t Have to Be Indian to . . .”
48. “Legislators Irked by Liuzzo Files”
49. “Rally
Honors Accused Klan Trio at Dunn,”
50. G. K. Hodenfield, “National PTA Chief Backs Civil Rights”; Senate Ballot on Vote Bill Still Elusive,” both [?], [circa May 1965]
51. “Bill on
Voting Flouts Due Process of Law,”
52. Bill Sellers,
“Delaying Tactics in
53. “Why Does
Dr. King Oppose Rescue
54. “King,” [circa January 1965]
55. “Rights Bill Impact,” Wall Street Journal, January 6, 1965
56. “Riots in
57. Photo: “Negro Takes Tennessee Assembly Seat”; “Bridge to Whites Sought,” both Christian Science Monitor, [early January 1965]
58. David Lawrence, “Voter Qualifications,” Mobile Register, 1965
59. Political
cartoon: voting rights and
60. Jimmy
Breslin, “The Sermons Are All on
61. “Voice Not from Dixie But from New England”; “Amen”; Drew Pearson, “Almost like Tide Tacking Alabama”; David Lawrence, “‘Without Precedent,” all Mobile Register, March 25, 1965
62. “Publicity
Hoax,”
63. “Readers
Continue to Discuss
64. George Dixon, “Con Man and the Mayor,” San Francisco Examiner, [April 1965] [retitled, but otherwise identical text to item #9 above]
65. Bob Ingram, “Voter Bill is Approved by Senate,” Montgomery Advertiser, April 23, 1965
66. “Boston
Mayor Studies Grievances after March,”
67. “Church Bombing Coverage Cited: Star Reporting Draws Praise,”
68. Paul Good,
“Police Seize Dr. King in
69. “The Case
for
70. “‘Rights’ Suits Due”
71. “Better Understanding, We Hope . . .”
72. “Negro Leadership: Can it Prevent More Bloodshed?,” Birmingham News, June 15, 1965
73. “Martin Luther King . . . . at communist Training School,” Augusta Courier, July 8, 1963
74. “Forman Refuses to Repudiate Reds,” Human Events, April 24, 1965
75. “Double
Standard,”
76. “What Christ Really Preached,” Human Events, May 15, 1965
77. “Extracts
from ‘March on
78. “March on
79. Strom Thurmond, “What the President Didn’t Say,” Human Events, [1965]
80. “An Eyewitness Account,” Congressional Record, April 1, 1965
81. “Background Information on Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.”
82. “Johnson, King Decree that Negro Race Must Be Assimilated by White People,” Augusta Courier, December ?28, 1965
83. Photo, “Freedom Marchers Bed Down” [March 1965]
84. “The Untold
Part of the
Reel 17,
85. Carl P.
Clement: “
86. “Bulletin
from Americans for
87. “A Plea for Reasonableness: the School Bus Issue”
88. “Suspects
Confuse Slaying of Wife,”
89. “Pike Leaders Urge Calm in CR Testing,” November 18, 1964
90. “Joined
Maddox’
91. David
Lawrence, “LBJ Asks Congress to Take Away Civil Rights of American Worker”;
Holmes Alexander, “Civil Rights Obsession Widening
92. Typewritten
letter from Victor B. Atkins, Jr., of the Dallas County Abstract Co., Inc.,
93. William H. Stringer, “‘Rights’ Knit Together,” Christian Science Monitor, December 16, 1964
94. Handwritten letter of March 17, 1965, from [?] in Minneapolis to the editor of the “Selma Newspaper,” Selma, Alabama, with articles enclosed: Mike Royko, “Selma Police Chief Wins Friends with Nonviolent Tactics”; “Alabama: Long Road Symbol of Movement”; photo: “Protest Police Brutality,” all Minneapolis Star, March 17, 1965
95. “Confrontation
in
96. “Where are Leaders?” [letter to editor], Birmingham News, February 19, [?1965]
97. “School Heads Delay Action on Signing”
98. “Don’t Let Rumors Get You,” [circa March 1965]
99. Holmes Alexander, “The Republicans and the Southern Vote,” Northern Virginia Daily, March 17, 1965
100. Holmes Alexander, “A New Color Blindness”
101. John
Allan Long, “Displaced Negroes: Racial Currents in
102. William Loeb, “Just a Day at Home,” [circa late March 1965]
103. “LBJ and the Negroes’ Future” [circa May 1965]
104. “The
State of
105. “The Intellectuals and President Johnson”
106. William Loeb, “While Back Home”
107. Robert Cahn, “Johnson Calls Conferences, Sets Out New Racial Goals,” Christian Science Monitor, June 7, 1965
108. “Dr. King’s Boycott,” Chicago Tribune, March 31, 1965
109. Hughes
A. Robinson, “Criticizes King:
110. “They’re
for Reform in
111. [fragment
on
112. Kenneth L. Dixon, “Three Words Label Johnson as Factional President” [March 1965]
113. Al
Kuettner, “Hometown Pays Tribute to King,”
114. David Lawrence, “The President Demands Mobocracy Rule” [March 1965]
115. David
Lawrence, “
116. John
Herbers, “Woman Punches Alabama Sheriff,”
117. [fragment
of editorial on violence in the Northeast during demonstrations in
118. John
Herbers, “Negro Teachers Protest in
119. “LBJ, King Guilty” [letter to editor], Montgomery Advertiser, April 21, 1965
120. David F. Wagner, “Oshkosh Activity of Ku Klux Klan Stayed in Public Eye Only 2 Years,” Appleton [Wisconsin] Post-Crescent, April 18, 1965
121. “Issues
of
122. “Evers,
Group Bolsters
123. “Sen.
Fulbright Stubborn, Smart,”
124. “King Exhorts Negroes: Test All Racial Bars,” [dateline January 15, (1965)]
125. “Not
Force with Force, but One More Try at Dissolving Injustice with Justice,”
126. photos:
“Civil Rights Demonstrators March on Statehouse,”
127. “Intercepted Message,” [publication of note from George (?Wallace) to Wilson Baker, March 18, 1965]
128. “What
is Eight Weeks of Demonstrations Compared with 100 Years of Injustice?,”
129. Ralph
McGill, “Take a Good Look!,”
130. Ralph
McGill, “Agony of the Pulpit,”
131. “Bureaucratic
Excess” “Near-Miss Verdict,”
132. “Dr.
King to Seek New Voting Law”; “15 Young Rights Pickets
133. “King’s Arrest Reported Part of Master Plan,” [circa January 1965]
134. John
Lynch, “Congressional Delegation Plans to Visit
135. “Publicity Hoax,” Troy Messenger, February 2, 1965
136. “A Landmark Vote Gives Negroes Lever Against Discrimination by Unions”
137. “Martin Challenges Katzenbach Ability”
138. “The
Dust Begins to Settle,”
139. Don
McKee, “
140. “Harry
Truman Call
141. “Church
and Hate,” Sylacauga [
142. “The Busy National Council of Churches,” Human Events, January 16, 1965
143. “National Council of Churches Finances Racial Turmoil”
144. “How’s the Racial Image?”
145. [editorial
against Martin Luther King’s intended boycott of
146. headline: “That’s Your Cue to Leave, Dr. King,” Tampa Tribune
147. Marquis
W. Childs, “Collins Shows Patience, Unshakable Calm in Difficult Role of
148. “Perilous Naivete of Dr. King,” [reprinted from St. Louis Globe-Democrat, December 3, 1964]
149. “Voter
Examination Unduly Difficult,”
reel 17,
150. “[letters]
To the Editor,” Morris County’s Daily
Record [
151. “Letters
to the Editor,” Wayne Independent [
152. “The Selma Story”; “James Bevil [sic: Bevel] on Rioting”; 7 photos; “Communists Love Lewis, Lewis Loves Communists”; “King in 1957, King in 1964”; “Andrew Young,” all Birmingham Independent, February 3, 1965
153. George
Carmack, “
154. “Lawyers
Ask Tight
155. “
156. “[?] Mistake to Stop First Rights March”
157. “Foolish
or Vicious? Or Both?,”
158. “The
Others Have Problems, Too,”
159. Robert
S. Allen and Paul Scott, “Big Drive to Unseat
160. “Players
of a Summer Game,”
161. JoAnn
Maxwell, “Unplanned Curve Thrown Governor,” Tri-Cities
[Daily] [Sheffield, Tuscumbia, and
162. JoAnn
Maxwell, “Racially-Troubled
163. “Editors
Tour North Alabama,”
164. “Welcome
to
165. “Editors
Are Greeted by Pickets in
166. Roy
Bain, “Newsmen ‘Warming Up’,”
167. Hugh
Merrill, “NAACPer Plans Press Talk Here”; “Bear Refuses Water Walk for
Newsmen,” both
168. Don
McKee, “Righters Greet Newsmen Making Tour of
169. “There is Much Work to be Done at Home,” Decatur Daily, [circa June 8, 1965]
170. “Demonstrators
Protest Tour by Newsmen,”
171. JoAnn Maxwell, “Skepticism and General Curiosity Prevail Among Visiting Newsmen,” Tri-Cities Daily, [circa June 9, 1965]
172. “CR
Demonstrators Meet Touring Newsmen in
173. “Newsmen
Look Over B’ham After Pickets, Calls at
174. “The
Use of Smear Words,”
175. “Rights Leaders Plan to Impeach Wallace,” Daily News, March [?29, ?1965]
176. Handwritten note to a newspaper
177. “Klan Leaders Want Talk with Johnson,” Daily News, March 29, 1965
178. “King, Peace and Violence”
179. David Lawrence, “What Happened to ‘Law and Order’ in Rights?,” [1965]
180. Jerry
Hames, “Clubs, Tear Gas, Hatred Facts of Selma Girl’s Life,”
181. “Civil
Rights Rally Swells King Fund,”
182. Rev.
David C. Tyrell, “St. Margaret Mary Curate Recalls Memorable Visit,” Westwood [
183. Henry J. Taylor, “Voting Measure Greatly Increases Federal Powers,” [circa spring 1965]
184. News notes on testimony following murder of Rev. James Reeb, and on Harry Truman denouncing both Martin Luther King and the Ku Klux Klan,” [circa spring 1965]
185. “
186. News note on Wilson Baker, Cincinnati Post and Times-Star
187. “King
Levels Blast at
188. George Carmack, “The Alabama Vote Tests: Citizen Who Passes is an ‘Expert’,” [February 1965]
189. David Lawrence, “Volume Voting Stressed in Bill, Honesty is Ignored,” 1965
190. “A
Walk—Or a March?,”
191. Ralph
Griffith, “
192. “Two Wrongs Don’t Make a Right”; “Text of Johnson’s ‘Voting Rights Bill of 1965’,” both Knoxville Journal, March 26, 1965
193. article typescript: John Charwick, “First Lead Voting Rights”
194. Don
McKee, “2,300 Negroes are Jailed as Voter Drive Increases”; James Keyser,
“Here’s What Faces Folks Registering in
195. “18
Letters from
196. “No
Boycott of
197. William Loeb, “Is This Trip Necessary?”
198. “Firms Refuse Boycott – Todd,” [mid-1965]
199. [repetition of #186, above]
200. “
201. “Rights
Group Battles Police in
202. “Paper Firm Answers Wilkins Selma Plea,” [dateline February 7, (?1965)]
203. Al Kuettner, “Negroes Planning to ‘Fill the Jails’”; “Carpet Rolled out for Visiting Newsmen,” both [early 1965]
204. “Registrars
Bow to Negro Terms in
205. “The
Long View in
206. Howard
James, “City of
207. “They Shall Not Overcome”
208. “Bullets,
Bottles, and
209. “’25
to 35 a Day . . .’,”
210. Howard
James, “
211. “Rex Thomas, “Whites Retain Composure Despite Selma Outbreaks,” [early 1965]
212. Gay
Talese, “
213. “The Day Alabama’s Mr. Wallace Fooled Friend and Foe Alike,” [July 1964]
214. Howard
James, “
215. John
Herbers, “Negro Goals in
216. “Wearying
Along in
217. “Congress
Should Look at SNCC,” Enquirer [
218. “North Next for SCLA—King Aide” [April 1965]