Notice! To All White Citizens Greetings: Stop Buying Ford Cars and Trucks and Other Ford Products... [caption title]

  • New Orleans , 1960
By [African Americana]. [Louisiana]
New Orleans, 1960. Near fine.. Broadside, 9 x 6 inches. Minor toning. Broadside urging the white citzens of New Orleans to stop buying Ford cars, claiming Ford profits "have been distributed to integration and civil rights organizations" to the detriment of white folks "by forcing them to associate with negroes." The broadside declaims, "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 ever buy a Ford again." The Citizens' Council of Greater New Orleans lobbied for boycotts on several companies that they felt were encouraging Southern society into integration.

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Title

Notice! To All White Citizens Greetings: Stop Buying Ford Cars and Trucks and Other Ford Products... [caption title]

Author

[African Americana]. [Louisiana]

Condition

Near Fine

Publisher

New Orleans

Date

1960


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