Scope and Content Note

Pamphlets, leaflets, and other material published, distributed, or utilized by the Citizens' Councils in propagation of their political and social views on federalism, public schools, ethnology, communism, and, especially, race relations in the United States.

Scope and Content Note The collection consists of memorandums and a police report concerning the September 1, 1943, automobile accident between James C. Morris, an employee of the War Department’s U.S. Engineer Office in Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas, and Joe Ella Levson, a female African-American restaurant operator in Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee. While in Memphis, Morris collided with Levson when he made a blind turn into her path. Despite not yielding the right-of-way, Morris received a small fine...