Thanks to our partner, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, four issues of the People’s Rights Bulletin spanning 1936 and 1937 are now available on our website.
The paper was written by an organization called the Southern Committee for People’s Rights. The organization’s primary objectives during this time were to insure that all people had access to the same constitutional rights, to support constructive legislation, reduce the social tension that led to coercion and terrorization of disadvantaged people, and to oppose the program of organizations that employed “vigilante” methods to accomplish its purpose (e.g. the Ku Klux Klan).
In an effort to raise awareness of civil rights issues, the Southern Committee for People’s Rights published the People’s Rights Bulletin. In the paper they discussed cases and activities related to civil rights in the South. For example, these 1936-1937 issues feature articles discussing Memphis, T.N. teachers being denied the right to organize, Senator Robert M. LaFollette’s Senate Resolution 266, Arkansas share croppers defending their civil rights, and much more.
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