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Editorial
July 28, 1958
The Augusta Courier
Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia
What is this article about?
A Little Rock church bulletin reproduces a Gazette article on a Negro league offering $15 to register voters in Baton Rouge, criticizing it as vote-buying, questioning funding sources like communism or NAACP, and highlighting hypocrisy versus white groups. Dated June 29, 1958.
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LITTLE ROCK, AGAIN
The Central Baptist Church, at Little Rock, Arkansas, has a very interesting bulletin which it circulates among its members.
Under date of June 29, 1958, it reproduced an article which appeared in THE ARKANSAS GAZETTE on Monday, June 23, 1958.
Here's the article which the bulletin reproduced:
"Negroes Offered
Cash To Register
Baton Rouge, June 22 — Negroes in the capital city area are being offered a new incentive to become registered voters —$15 cash.
The News Leader, a weekly published for Negroes here, announced on its front page the First Ward Voters League, Inc., is offering the money.
Negroes are urged to become '10 feet tall' by registering between now and June 29."
And, under the heading of "BUYING VOTES", the bulletin says:
"In our issue of June 8, we printed an article from the Arkansas Gazette about the indifference of Negroes in the Little Rock area to support an integrationist Negro newspaper. In this issue, we call your attention to a brief article from the Arkansas Gazette about the indifference of Negroes in Baton Rouge, La., to register for voting. If the article is correct, and I suppose that it is, the Negroes of Louisiana are not interested in voting. Perhaps, as here in Little Rock, great numbers of Negroes believe in and practice segregation. I believe that all citizens should exercise their political rights and vote, but I also believe that there is something badly wrong when it is necessary to offer money to buy votes.
What would happen if a White organization offered to pay for votes? Would not integrationists bring Federal Courts into action if they could? Where did this local organization get the money to offer $15.00 to every Negro that registers? Is that money, (it could run into thousands of dollars) coming from Communistic sources? Does it come from 'white' leaders of the NAACP? Will there be the same 'hue and cry' for an investigation as there would be if a White Citizens Council offered such inducements? Will not any Negro who receives such money be considered bound to vote as the organization which gave him the money dictates?
The Arkansas Gazette put the article in a small corner of Page 7 of Section 2. Is that because the Gazette thought such news of minor interest? Where do you suppose the Gazette would have put such an article had it been a 'White' organization that had made such an effort? 'NUF SED.'"
The Central Baptist Church, at Little Rock, Arkansas, has a very interesting bulletin which it circulates among its members.
Under date of June 29, 1958, it reproduced an article which appeared in THE ARKANSAS GAZETTE on Monday, June 23, 1958.
Here's the article which the bulletin reproduced:
"Negroes Offered
Cash To Register
Baton Rouge, June 22 — Negroes in the capital city area are being offered a new incentive to become registered voters —$15 cash.
The News Leader, a weekly published for Negroes here, announced on its front page the First Ward Voters League, Inc., is offering the money.
Negroes are urged to become '10 feet tall' by registering between now and June 29."
And, under the heading of "BUYING VOTES", the bulletin says:
"In our issue of June 8, we printed an article from the Arkansas Gazette about the indifference of Negroes in the Little Rock area to support an integrationist Negro newspaper. In this issue, we call your attention to a brief article from the Arkansas Gazette about the indifference of Negroes in Baton Rouge, La., to register for voting. If the article is correct, and I suppose that it is, the Negroes of Louisiana are not interested in voting. Perhaps, as here in Little Rock, great numbers of Negroes believe in and practice segregation. I believe that all citizens should exercise their political rights and vote, but I also believe that there is something badly wrong when it is necessary to offer money to buy votes.
What would happen if a White organization offered to pay for votes? Would not integrationists bring Federal Courts into action if they could? Where did this local organization get the money to offer $15.00 to every Negro that registers? Is that money, (it could run into thousands of dollars) coming from Communistic sources? Does it come from 'white' leaders of the NAACP? Will there be the same 'hue and cry' for an investigation as there would be if a White Citizens Council offered such inducements? Will not any Negro who receives such money be considered bound to vote as the organization which gave him the money dictates?
The Arkansas Gazette put the article in a small corner of Page 7 of Section 2. Is that because the Gazette thought such news of minor interest? Where do you suppose the Gazette would have put such an article had it been a 'White' organization that had made such an effort? 'NUF SED.'"
What sub-type of article is it?
Suffrage
Partisan Politics
Moral Or Religious
What keywords are associated?
Voter Registration
Buying Votes
Negro Indifference
Segregation Support
Naacp Funding
Communist Sources
Little Rock
Baton Rouge
What entities or persons were involved?
Central Baptist Church
Arkansas Gazette
First Ward Voters League Inc.
Naacp
White Citizens Council
Editorial Details
Primary Topic
Criticism Of Financial Incentives For Negro Voter Registration
Stance / Tone
Anti Integration And Pro Segregation With Suspicions Of Communism And Naacp
Key Figures
Central Baptist Church
Arkansas Gazette
First Ward Voters League Inc.
Naacp
White Citizens Council
Key Arguments
Offering Money To Register Voters Is Vote Buying And Wrong
Negroes In Little Rock And Baton Rouge Show Indifference To Voting And Support Segregation
Hypocrisy If White Organizations Offered Similar Incentives, Leading To Federal Intervention
Source Of Funds Suspicious, Possibly From Communist Sources Or White Naacp Leaders
Recipients Would Be Bound To Vote As The Organization Dictates
Arkansas Gazette Downplayed The Story Compared To How It Would Cover White Efforts