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Mississionary Baptist Minister Defends Segregation as Biblical

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Personal letter from R.A. Raney to Herbert L. Thomas providing biblical justification and constitutional authority in support of continued racial segregation. tion the equal protection of the laws. Árticle XV. Section I. "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall no t be denied or abrifged by the United States or any State on accounto pf color, Race, or previous condition of servitude 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropiate legislation. "The Negro has had all provided by these Articles XIV adn XV. since the Civil war." But Desegregation or Integration has never been, during all time, the right of the Negro, or other Coloured races, to integrate or have social equality with the white races, and this condition was fixed by Almight God. This matter is not subject to the will of the people, which has been proven by numerous Bible examples. So the only thing that will settle this matter is to let the raced stay separate, as God made them, and has been practiced through the ages. Integration is unfair to all races, And the penalty for violation has been shown in the Bible to just as applicable to one race as another. If the NAACP is not an undercover Communist organization, it is certain that what the N.A.A.C.P. is doing exactly suits the Communist. I think that was made plain in 1957, when President Eisenhower rejected a 60 Negro delegation which called on him, to either come South or...
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April 9, 1958
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