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This article reports on a growing movement in the U.S. Congress to protect the authority of state governments in the wake of a series of U.S. Supreme Court decisions overturning states laws. The state lwas discussed include those that mandate racial segregation.

This is a newspaper clipping of a letter Gregory Swanson wrote to the editor of the Henry County Journal. Swanson expresses his opinion that the United States should first attempt to eradicate inequality at home before "embarking upon a global quest for freedom."

This is a clipping of an article written by Irving Carlyle, an attorney from Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Carlyle is the leader of the opposition to the Pearsall Plan, a strategy to resist federally-mandated racial integration in North Carolina's schools. Carlyle argues that attempts by lawyers to uphold segregation and resist the Supreme Court will undermine democracy and the rule of law.

This is a newspaper clipping of a letter Gregory H. Swanson wrote to the editor of the Washington Post. In the letter, Swanson, responding to an earlier editorial titled "Babel", expresses his opininon that President Dwight D. Eisenhower ought to be more open and honest about his positions on racial desegregation.

There are multiple copies of this editorial letter in Swanson's civil rights subject file.

This is a newspaper clipping of a letter Gregory H. Swanson wrote to the editor of the Washington Post. In the letter, Swanson, responding to an earlier editorial titled "Babel", expresses his opininon that President Dwight D. Eisenhower ought to be more open and honest about his positions on racial desegregation.

There are multiple copies of this editorial letter in Swanson's civil rights subject file.

This opinion article from the editors of the Washington Post argues that "too many unauthorized spokesmen have been telling the country what the President thinks about the problems arising out of school desegregation."

On November 2, 1956, the Washington Post published Gregory H. Swanson's response to this editorial article. Swanson collected multiple copies of the response in his civil rights subject file.

"Congress and Equality" shares news about the American Council of Human Rights. The focus of this issue is the Council's program proposals for U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

This is a clipping of a newspaper editorial from an unknown publication. It supports a recent statement in defense of the U.S. Supreme Court by a group of 100 lawyers.

This is a newspaper clipping of an article reporting on the development of minature microphones to diagnose heart conditions.

This is a clipping of an editorial published in an unknown newspaper. It argues that the U.S. President and Department of Justice should do more to protect the rights of Black citizens to vote.

The note "Respond with letter" is handwritten on the clipping.

These are typescript copies of a letter that Gregory H. Swanson wrote to the editor of the Washington Post. In the letter, Swanson, responding to an earlier editorial titled "Babel", expresses his opininon that President Dwight D. Eisenhower ought to be more open and honest about his positions on racial desegregation.

The Washington Post published the letter on November 2, 1956. Swanson kept multiple copies of the published letter in his civil rights subject file.

This is a handwritten copy of a letter that Gregory H. Swanson wrote to the editor of the Washington Post. In the letter, Swanson, responding to an earlier editorial titled "Babel", expresses his opininon that President Dwight D. Eisenhower ought to be more open and honest about his positions on racial desegregation.

The Washington Post published the letter on November 2, 1956. Swanson kept multiple copies of the published letter in his civil rights subject file.

These are printed copies of two opinions of the U.S. Supreme Court. The opinion for Bolling v. Sharpe was filed inside of the opinion for Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.

The Public Affairs Committee, a non-profit educational organization, published this pamphlet in cooperation with the NAACP. The pamphlet provides some background and context for questions surrounding the racial integration of U.S. schools after the U.S. Supreme Court issued its opinion in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.

The pamphlet is annotated with a few handwritten notes.

Gregory H. Swanson writes to thank Sarah Patton Boyle on behalf of the Delta Nu Lambda Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity and the Danville Chapter of the NAACP. On May 18, 1955, Sarah Patton Boyle spoke at a public meeting hosted by the two groups.

The letter includes a newspaper clipping from the Danville Register reporting on the event.

This pamphlet from the Virginia Citizens Conference provides instructions for paying the poll tax and registering to vote in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

This is a clipping of an article from Time magazine. The article reports on the potential role of the U.S. Supreme Court in ending racial segregation in the United States. A handwritten note was attached to the article.

In this letter, Phineas Indritz, an attorney, argues to Joseph D. Stecher, Secretary of the American Bar Association (A.B.A), that the A.B.A. should no longer require lawyers to disclose their race before admission to the association.