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This is another cartoon drawn by Eugene Payne. A trick-or-treater with the appearance of someone old is at the door of the federal court. The bomb of "Recent Court Ruling" is about to be given to the school board.

This is a political cartoon drawn on 10/11/1967 by the Charlotte Observer's Eugene Payne. A surprised tortoise labeled "Deep South School Integration" is surprised by a firecracker detonated by the arm of the Supreme Court.

Governor Luther Hodges spoke out against desegregation and called for North Carolinians to promote "voluntary segregation" even after the Supreme Court order made such action illegal. This brochure contains a radio speech Hodges made on the issue in…

These are pages four and five of the report.

This is page two and three of the Pearsall Plan. Text only.

This is the cover of a printed pamphlet outlining the information recommended by the Pearsall Commission. Featured on the cover is the title of the report and a brief abstract of the contents.

This is a letter sent out by the Patriots of North Carolina in either 1955 or 1956 asking for committed people to join their reactionary organization. With a deep fear of racial desegregation, the group formed to preserve the white social hierarchy…

This is the spread taken from a yearbook depicting the front doors to Second Ward School in Charlotte, NC.

In 1948, the NAACP hired a professor from Howard University to study Charlotte schools in order to document the inequality. In this graph, school subjects taught in white schools often did not appear in black schools.

This is a brightly painted postcard featuring Second Ward School, one of the two main black schools in Charlotte.