Word: newssheets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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HERE IS THE ENEMY, read the headline in the monthly newssheet (circ. 65,000) of the White Citizens' Councils of America. Inside a black-bordered box were listed 74 "organizations appearing in House and Senate committee records as favoring 'civil rights' and anti-South force legislation during 1957 and 1959." Among them: Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America, American Veterans Committee, Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, N.A.A.C.P., Catholic Interracial Council, the Protestant Episcopal Church, Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World, the Methodist Church, United Automobile...
...ended, they had the use of a library (Balzac, Hugo, etc.). and were allowed to play tennis with crude rackets and a thin rubber ball. Lieut. Cameron, a handy man with an accordion, wangled a cheap Russian model and taught the others to play. They got a daily Communist newssheet, full of propaganda, but saw only one American periodical in all their months of imprisonment: every week, Lieut. Cameron received from his brother, Bob, 21, a copy of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED which the Chinese passed on after inspecting it carefully and clipping out some of the articles...