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Esther Means of Charleston, South Carolina, writes to Kansas Governor Fred Hall of Topeka arguing that the U. S. African American population should be distributed equally across all of the United States at the rate of ten whites to one black. She claims that according to the 1950 census Kansas's black population was below this standard. Means encouraged Governor Hall to accept any black person wanting to migrate to Kansas. The mid to late 1950s was a time a social unrest in the South. Events such as Brown vs. Board of Education, the murder of Emmett Till, and the Montgomery bus boycott challenged southern customs concerning black equality and helped propel the nation into the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.
Creator: Means, Esther
Date: February 15, 1956
Item Number: 214660
Call Number: Governor's records, Hall, Box 6 Folder 1
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 214660
Collections - State Archives - Governor's Records - Hall, Frederick Lee
Date - 1950s - 1956
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Civil rights
Government and Politics - State Government - Governors - Hall, Frederick Lee
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Correspondence
People - African Americans - Discrimination
People - Notable Kansans - Hall, Frederick Lee, 1916-1970
Places - Cities and towns - Topeka
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Places - Other States - South Carolina
Thematic Time Period - Eisenhower Years, 1946 - 1961 - Civil Rights Movement
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Government records - Correspondence
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