[Rarebooks] F/S Brown v Board of Education related Tls from a Louisiana D.A.R. official

[Garry R Austin]

We offer the following net to all and postpaid @$175.00 It is a 
remarkable and disturbing letter on several levels, it reveals personal 
feelings surely but much more I think. It should find its way to an 
institution.

Austin's Antiquarian Books
PO Box 730
Wilmington VT 05363
802 464-8438

(Brown vs The Board Of Education)
de Coligny, Alice Lord; Typed letter, signed, (Tls) New Orleans, July 6, 
1954, two pages to Mildred K. Rice of Wilbraham Mass, on State 
Parliamentarian, Louisiana Society D. A. R. stationery with envelope. 
The writer is querying Rice regarding genealogical info on a D.A.R. 
research project. In the second paragraph she begins to relate her 
feelings regarding the effects of the recent SCOTUS decision and much more.
".....that is a date I must verify.....he was a Chief Justice of 
Louisiana and a much respected man. One of the better schools was named 
for him here in New Orleans. Don't know if it is still used as the new 
Superintendent of Schools, a Chicago man has renamed and reoriented many 
of the schools. One particular school has been renamed and made a 
colored school and his descendants must be very unhappy every time they 
pass it and see the change. No one living outside of the deep south can 
realize what the Supreme Court has done in ruling against segregation.  
Having lived here 45 years from a New England family where the negroes 
were considered "God's images in Ebony" I have had to change my feelings 
somewhat. It is not a matter of equality, which the south is willing for 
them to have in opportunity, but their reaching for superiority, they 
just aren't ready for it. Some I grant you are, but they are the 
exception.  I can't visulize my blond little granddaughter in a room 
full of colored students. It will mean that those who can will send 
their children to private schools. Already the parochial schools are 
overcrowded and those who can hardly afford taxes to keep up the public 
schools and send their children to private ones will suffer. 90% of our 
car accidents and criminal activities are done by colored people. Don't 
know why I got off on to this as its better to keep still about it. I 
get along very well with colored people, my help stays for years and my 
part time maid calls me her "white Mama" but I imagine one reason is 
that we had 3 colored families in Bangor and I went to school with some 
of them. They were not ill-mannered and raucus like the present 
generaton here. Col. Cocke found the name Patille in the family ..........

A remarkable letter, typewritten single spaced, very good, a second 
letter also accompanies this piece, also genealogically related.

Letter measures 8" x 11"; Very good.
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