File collected by the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission with correspondence in September 1959 from Mr. A. C. Stringer of Jackson, Mississippi. The file contains a letter from Mr. Stringer to Mississippi governor J. P. Coleman recommending that the state support organizations like the Southern Negro Improvement Association of Alabama, whose president, Samuel H. Moore, recently informed President Dwight D. Eisenhower that Southern African Americans do not appreciate forced school integration. The letter from Mr. Stringer is answered by Zach Vanlandingham of the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission at the request of Governor J. P. Coleman. Vanlandingham explains that the Sovereignty Commission works to "educate other sections of the nation to the facts regarding the true sentiment of" Mississippi African Americans. He also includes a copy of an editorial published in the Jackson Advocate, the largest African American newspaper in Mississippi, opposing Civil Rights legislation. Vanlandingham explains that the editorial has been reprinted in newspapers across the country.

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from A.C. Stringer, 1012 Walnut Street, Jackson, Miss., Sovereignty Commission records, Mississippi Department of Archives and History

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