Southern Patriot - Volume 28, Number 7, September 1970
Scope and Contents
The Southern Patriot was a progressive southern newspaper that ran from 1942-1976? out of South Carolina. The newspaper supported and advocated desegregation before and after the Civil Rights Movement. It covered groups like the militant-leaning Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in a favorable light. It covered the youth movements, sit-ins, and acts of civil disobedience surrounding the Civil Rights Movement and inspired activists in their endeavors.
The Southern Patriot was the newspaper arm of The Southern Conference Educational Fund or SCEF a group that led in the fight against segregation. Its first editor was James Dombrowski, “a white, Florida-born reformer who had been active in southern causes sine the 1920’s.” (Southern Patriot, 503). The Southern Patriot was named in an attempt to avoid the communist slurs that aimed at most anti-segregationist organizations. In the mid 1950’s editorship was assumed by Anne Braden a white Kentucky anti –racist activist, who with her husband Carl Braden became leaders and strong voices within the anti-segregationist movement throughout the 1960’s and early 1970’s. The Southern Patriot was an important voice on the left uncovering often overlooked stories of racism. Carl Braden was often jailed and called a communist for his outspoken opposition to institutionalized racism. Anne served as a mentor for student groups such as SNCC and she worked closely with Dr. Martin Luther King. In 1973, due to a challenge on the left, the Bradens left SCEF and the paper became more Marxist Leninist. (Southern Patriot in The Encyclopedia of Social Movement, SAGE: Three Oaks CA, 2011, pp 502-506.)
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Dates
- September 1970
Creator
- From the Collection: Braden, Carl, 1914-1975 (Person)
- From the Collection: Braden, Anne, 1924-2006 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Extent
1 items (1 newspaper. 8 pages.)
Language
From the Collection: English
Article Index
Collins Appeals to Supreme Cou 9/1/1970 1 Clinton, Oscar E.; Collins, Walter; Sedler, Robert A.; Minnis, Forrest; Mason, Louis G. appeal; draft board; discrimination; conscientious objector; SCEF; misleading advice; U.S. Court of Appeals Walter Collins' sentence was upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals in New Orleans in spite of evidence of misleading advice and a discriminatory draft board.
GIs March in Augusta 9/1/1970 1, 6 Maddox, Lester; Johnson, Paul peace march; memorial; solidarity; race relations; communism; Fort Knox; GI Coffeehouse; police harassment; GI protest; arrest; radical books Review of military protest and organization across the South.
Book Notes 9/1/1970 2 Irvine, Keith race relations; racial history Review of Kieth Irvine's _The Rise of the Colored Races_
Scottsboro Case of the West 9/1/1970 2 Drumgo, Fleeta; Clutchette, John; Jackson, George Lester; Jackson, Jonathan P. Scottsboro Case; repression; arrest; Soledad Brothers; murder; pamphlet; Soledad Brothers Defense Committee The _Southern Patriot_ urges readers to obtain the pamphlet about Soledad Brothers Case in California.
Pamphlets 9/1/1970 2 _Appeal to Reason_; Committee of Correspondence; unity; liberation movement; anti-war movement; oppression; _Lessons of Laurel_; _Lessons of Louisville_; Black Six Review of recently published pamphlets.
McSurelys Convicted of Contemp 9/1/1970 3 McSurely, Alan; McSurely, Margaret; Mulloy, Joe; Mulloy, Karen; McClellan, John; Brick, Joe; Bress, David; Smith, John L.; Stavis, Morton; Sterns, Nancy; Combs, Dan Jack; Zenger, John Peter coal operators; contempt of congress; trial; strip mining; sedition; McClellan Committee; indictment; dynamite; conspiracy; seized documents; appeal Alan and Margaret McSurely were convicted of contempt of Congress for failure to turn over requested documents to the McClellan Committee.
"An Attack on the Movement..." 9/1/1970 3 coal operators; oppression; record access Excerpt from a memo sent by Anne Braden about repression by the federal and local government on the civil rights movement.
Black Candidates 9/1/1970 3 Cashin, John; Wallace, George; King, C. B.; Jenness, Linda; Young, Andrew black candidates; National Democratic Party of Alabama Most notably in Georgia and Alabama, black candidates are campaigning across the South.
West Point Campaign 9/1/1970 4 Bluffington, John; Marshall, Barnes; Thomas, John, Jr.; Stanley, Seth; Whitley, Clifton SNCC; black campaign; conspiracy; shooting; murder; economic projects In West Point, Mississippi a vigorous campaign for black candidate John Bluffington was lost in a runoff election for mayor, but proves community involvement.
Aberdeen Boycott 9/1/1970 4 Walker, William; Lockett, James; Adams, Dan; Keady, W. C. business boycott; confederate flag; officer protest A full scale black boycott of white businesses in Aberdeen, Mississippi stems from the firing of two black police officers for refusal to wear uniforms or drive police cars with confederate flags on them.
"Hunger Doctor" Fined $500 9/1/1970 5 Gatch, Donald; Whitten, Jamie hunger; malnutrition; failure to keep adequate records; guilty plea; harassment; poverty; discrimination Dr. Donald Gatch, who focused attention on hunger and malnutrition in South Carolina, plead guilty to failure to keep adequate records and was fined $500. He has been constantly harassed since speaking out against treatment of the local poor.
Garbage Workers Vote to Strike 9/1/1970 4 Massell, Sam; Lucey, Bill garbage worker strike; union dues; deduction; firing; check-off issue; police resistance Sanitation workers in Atlanta voted to strike because the Board of Aldermen decided to stop the deduction of union dues from workers' pay checks.
Greensboro Garbage Strikes 9/1/1970 5 Gore, Gene; Hartle, Jack; Johnson, Nelson; Bailey, Thomas; Puson, Cecil; Frye, Henry garbage worker strike; union recognition; wage increase; due check-off; black liberation; militancy; black pride; student rebellion; community union Analysis of the garbage worker strike in Greensboro, North Carolina and how black pride and consciousness helped to aid the strike.
Black Six Acquitted 9/1/1970 6 Nicholson, S. Rush; Hawkins, Sam; Bryant, Ruth; Kuyu, Robert; Reid, Manfred; Cosby, Pete; Cortez, James R.; Allen, Martha; Honey, Allen "Black Six"; acquittal; conspiracy; uprising; ghetto; shotgun; protest; Kentucky Un-American Activities Committee The "Black Six" were acquitted of all charges after a two week trial.
The South in the Thirties 9/1/1970 7 Herdon, Angelo; Williams; Nell; Peterson, Willie coal mining; Jim Crow Laws; lynching; Unemployment Council; socialism; equality; arrest; share croppers; murder Biography of the life of Angelo Herdon, a black organizer in the 1930s, who suffered the effects of Jim Crow.
Justifying Murder in Jackson 9/1/1970 8 Williams, John Bell; Moore, Russell, III; Cox, Harold; Travis, Jack; Cates, Edward L.; Davis, Russell; Barnett, Ross justified murder; Jackson State massacre; student provocation; police shooting; riot suppression; racism The ruling class of Mississippi is still trying to justify the police shooting of students at Jackson State College in May 1970.
Militant Killed 9/1/1970 8 Hampton, Carl; Haile, Bartee; Tilley, Dorothy; Collier, Tarleton; Dobbs, James McBride People's Party II; murder; police snipers; ambush; protest Obituaries of Carl Hampton, killed by police at a protest and other movement supporters.
Oxford Jury Acquits Teels 9/1/1970 8 Teel, Robert Gerald; Teel, Larry; Marrow, Henry injustice; acquittal; murder; racism; all-white jury; boycott; Ku Klux Klan The black community of Oxford, North Carolina was outraged when the Teels were found not guilty of murdering Henry Marrow by an all-white jury in spite of overwhelming evidence.
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