The Citizen, September 1962

University of Mississippi eGrove Newspapers and Journals Citizens' Council Collection 9-1-1962 The itC izen, September 1962 Citizens' Councils of America Follow this and additional works at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/citizens_news Part of the United States History Commons Recommended Citation Citizens' Councils of America, "The itC izen, September 1962" (1962). Newspapers and Journals. 50. https://egrove.olemiss.edu/citizens_news/50 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Citizens' Council Collection at eGrove. It has been accepted for inclusion in Newspapers and Journals by an authorized administrator of eGrove. For more information, please contact [email protected]. SEPTEMBER I Sl62 the CITIZEN c EDITORIAL OPINION OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE CITIZENS' COUNC I LS OF AMERICA Editor ...... ....... ....... _.. W. J. Simmons Managing Editor __ _. _... _ . Richard D. Morphew Business Manager .. _ . Louis \V. Hollis Victory At Oxford (Editorial Board listed on page 15) Volume 6, Numbu 11 . PubJ..U.bed monthly with. combiDcd July· It happened on September 30, realization that this was happening August iuue at Jac:kson. MissiWppi. by The Cimcru' Council, Inc. 1962. in the United States - not in SecOnd-Oau mail privilezes aulboriud at Jadaoa. Misswippi. On that peaceful Sunday, as Hungary or East Berlin. early autumn's green and gold Surely th e cruelest and most Address all correspondence to: mingled in the slanting shadow, The Citizen unforgiveable act connected 315-25 Plaza Building of late afternoon, the quiet of with the invasion was the use Jacbon 1, Mississippi Oxford, Miss., was rudely broken of negro troops. Those who by anned might. ordered them to Orford knew The opinions e.xpres.ued in signed .rtic::les appearinJ herein do An American community felt the the feelings of Mississippians; DOl n-"Iy n-prnent official vie~"S of The Citiuns' Councils of AlDCrica. Official policy statements are plainly desJgnaled. shock of military invasionl thus, this action can only be The CibuP is not TeJPOnsible for unmJicited material submitted for pouible public:ation. All sw::h material should be IICICXIQ)panied Disturbances followed. Two constnled as an extreme provo by Il M!1f-addressed stamped eQ"-clope if Its return i5 desired. men were killed, hundreds of per cation, an ooert c1Jollenge to sons wounded, scores were taken riot, and a deliberate attempt prisoner. to humiliate a proud people. SUBSCRIPrION RATES Croups of students at the Uni Using negro troops for the oc- One Year~3.00 Two Yea:rs-45.50 versity of Mississippi were gassed Smgle copy ............... ........ _. 35¢ cupation of Ole "liss will be bit 10 copies . _ . .. .. $2.50 without just provocation. terly resented by all Southerners Back issues. as available SOc each Large numbers of Ole Miss stu for years to come. There was no (Except for special i5su~l.OO) dents were forced out of their possible justification for this insult, SPECIAL GROUP AND BULK RATES dormitories by tear gas and nausea unless it be out of sheer terror of UPON REQUEST gas, only to be run down like the NAACP and the negro bloc Advertising rates and availabilities upon request rabbits by armed marshals. "I any vote in big cities of the North. were captured and imprisoned in The unlawful invasion and stockades, where they were held seizure of the University of ~lis CONTENTS without food or water for as long sissippi campus came despite the EDITORLAL QPtNlON 2 as 18 hours. fact that President Kennedy and Civil liberties were trampled in MlSSW,lPPI STILL SAYS 'NEVER'- his brother, the attorney general, Gov. Ross R. Barnett 6 the dust. had been implored not to take Searches were made, property such precipitous action. INTECRATlOS Is Co:MMlII'o"lnJ Is Acnox- Dr. :\ledIord Evans 10 was seized - without proper war Despite all appeals to reason, rants. however, they evidenced a fanati· Cover-Covemor Ross Barnett of Mississippi acknowl. The beautiful Ole Miss camp~s cal zeal to do whatever was neces edges cheers from Ole Mis!> booster~ who greeted became an anned camp. Foxholes sary to put negro James \Ieredith him \\;th Rebel yells at the Ole ~liss-Houston football game. poclmarked the turf with ugly physically on the campus, although scars. his application for enrollment had Eyewitnesses were dazed by the (Continued on page 4 1 2 THE CITIZEN one state, none is immune. If the victory lie in other means. rights and liberties of one of our The origin of our immediate Victory At Oxford Union of 50 sovereign states can problem is political. Its roots are be ruthlessly crusbed, then the in the overriding design of the (Continued from page 2) by force of arms. rights and liberties of the other Kennedy Administration to bold been repeatedly rejected for good How long ,viII this be? How long 49 are in peril. the negro bloc vote in pivotal cause. can the Kennedys afford to be What sball we do bere in Mis Northern states. And the action was taken for one responsible for the permanent sissippi, in the face of the crisis Consider for a moment the di obvious reason: Meredith is a military occupation of a college which has been thrust upon us? lemma upon which the Kennedys negro! No one-not even the wild campus for the sake of a lone We shall stand like me~xactly have impaled themselves by the est liberal- would dream of the symbol which might prove attrac wbere we bave stood since the be armed invasion of Mississippi to Kennedys going to such extremes tive to negro bloc voters in the ginning! place oDe negro-temporarily-in to force a white student into a North? We shaU not yield one single one school. They have gained no university under any circum Clearly, the Oxford Campaign inch in our convictions on negro votes, for they had them all stances. was politically inspired. But the States' Rights and Racial In in the bag already. But they have ow that the Kennedys bave immature judgment of the brothers tegrity! Federal forces may alienated the South beyond all acted, let's take a look and see Kennedy in committing more than iwve occupied a portion of our hope of recoveryl who bas really won the victory. 30,000 troops to the Oxford area beloved state, but we shall Every Southerner now knows First, it must be clear that any is already backfiring. Already, it never bow to tyranny! that a vote for Kennedy is a vote claims that the segregation barrier is plain that the Kennedys stand Military occupation - e.ven by not only for integration, but for has been breached in Mississippi to lose much more from their Ox negro troops - is nothing new integration at bayonet-point! are patently spurious. ford foray than they could ever for the South. During the First The South is united as never be Ole Miss has not been in have hoped to gain. Reconstruction, all the Southern fore in its determination to insure tegrated! It has been inooded And what of other white colleges states were under military rule for that what happened at Oxford will and occupied by the United in Mississippi and the Deep South? 12 long years. But our forefathers never happen again in our land! States Anny, bllt Meredith is The same type military occupation never yielded, and in the end, they And clear-thinking people allover a prisoner on tlte campus. He at these schools would require up won their fight for States' Rights the country are \\rith us. is surrounded btl marshals who wards of a quarter-million troops and Racial Integrity. When the histories of our time live, eat and sleep with him. in Mississippi alone. And adding Certainly, we would never take are written, one fact ,viII stand If a man was ever segregated, the hundreds of elementary and up arms against our country, be forth as clear as the warm Southern that man is James Meredith! secondary schools to the total il it right or wrong (and in this in sunshine on that bright autumn lustrates the magnitude of the im The Mississippi Legislature made stance, we deem it grievously day: the state's official position abund possible task which would confront wrong! ). the Pentagon. The South Wall at Oxford! And we antly clear when it pointed out in Our remedy and the road to have ius! begun to fight! a recent resolution that Meredith Granted that the Kennedy Ad is the Kennedy. student. He was ministration has shown far more -------- SUBSCRIBE NOW TO THE CITIZEN -------, placed on the University campus enthusiasm for sending troops to 315 Piau Build ing - Jackson. Mississippi I by illegal use of military forces, ~Iississippi than to Cuba; even so, Yes! I want to receive THE CITIZEN every month! Payment is enclosed for my ~ and he is kept there only by Fed the problems posed are still in subscription as follows: I eral armed might. He is not a stu solvable. DOne Year-$3.00 0 Two years-$5.50 I dent of the State of Mississippi A vast groundswell of public o Check here if renewal I and has been, in effect, disowned reaction and indignation is build I (PLEASEPRINT) _________________ ~~~------------------------ by the state. ing up against the Kennedys, not (NAME) I only in the South, but throughout I It is thus apparent that Meredith I will remain at Ole Miss only as the nation! (ADDRESS) I long as the Kennedy Adminis For thinking people real.ize that I (CITY a. STATE) I tration is willing to keep bim there if armed force can be used against ------------------------------------~ 4 THE CITIZEN SEPTEMBER 1962 5 Mississippi Still Says 'N.ever' ~ By Ross R.

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