Lot 214
[SEGREGATION]. Notice! To All White Citizens Greetings: Stop Buying Ford Cars and Trucks and other Ford Products. New Orleans: Citizens' Council of Greater New Orleans, ca 1960s.
Sale 1118 - African Americana
Feb 28, 2023 10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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$300 - 400
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$347
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Lot Description
[SEGREGATION]. Notice! To All White Citizens Greetings: Stop Buying Ford Cars and Trucks and other Ford Products. New Orleans: Citizens' Council of Greater New Orleans, ca 1960s.

6 x 9 in. letterpress broadside (light toning to edges, else good). Bold text warns white citizens to stop buying Ford products as "Millions and Millions and Millions of dollars of Ford profits have been distributed to integration and civil rights organizations to fight the white people of the South, by forcing them to associate with negroes." The concluding call to action reads, "It is time to dry up at least one source of the money that is being used to destroy our Southern way of life. Don't Buy a Ford Ever Again." 

Citizens' Councils were created in response to the Brown v. Board of Education ruling against school segregation. Sometimes referred to as the "uptown Klan" or "white collar Klan," these councils comprised organizations of largely white segregationists and supremacists who used various tactics including tracking and intimidating people registering black voters, campaigning against politicians supporting integration, and boycotting of businesses seeming to be sympathetic to integration efforts.
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