John T. Grantham Papers
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of correspondence, newspapers, newsletters, newspaper clippings and other items related to desegregation in Mississippi. Of particular interest are newspaper clippings featuring next day reactions to the May 17, 1954 Brown v. Board of Education case in which the US Supreme Court ruled that segregated schools are inherently unequal.
The collection includes charters and resolutions from various Methodist churches in Mississippi denouncing the Church’s decision to accept integration. Also included are pamphlets and a list of suggestions by Pastor G. Stanley Frazer on how and why to resist integration in the Methodist Church.
Pamphlets and leaflets concern topics such as race mixing, communism and the NAACP, and crime rates following desegregation.
The John T. Grantham Papers should be particularly useful to anyone researching desegregation in Mississippi or in the Methodist Church, especially those researching the ideology of the segregationists.
Dates
- circa 1952-1973
Conditions Governing Access
Noncirculating; available for research.
Conditions Governing Use
This collection may be protected from unauthorized copying by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code).
Biographical / Historical
Dr. John T. Grantham was a chiropractor who practiced in Yazoo City, Mississippi between the 1930s and 1950s. He was born on August 1, 1911 and died on December 17, 1989.
Extent
.25 Cubic Feet : MC2/D15
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
This collection consists primarily of materials relating to desegregation in the South (especially Mississippi) and in the Methodist Church following the May 17, 1954 Brown v. Board of Education case, in which the United States Supreme Court ruled that segregated schools are inherently unequal. The materials apparently were collected by Dr. John T. Grantham, and most of them exhibit the segregationists’ perspective.
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.). Subject Source: TGM II, Genre and physical characteristic terms
- Letter. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Methodist Church. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Newsletters. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Newspapers. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Poetry. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Race relations. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- White Citizens councils. Subject Source: Local sources
- Title
- John T. Grantham Papers
- Author
- Processed by Amanda McRaney.
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Historical Manuscripts and Photographs Repository
118 College Drive - 5148
Hattiesburg MS 39406-0001
601.266.4345
