THE AUGUSTA COURIER, Georgia, July 23, 1958  

* Rare racist - white supremacy issue 
* Southern "Jim Crow" publication 
* Anti-Brown v. Board of Education

This was an openly racist newspaper, with a print of the Confederate flag in the masthead & almost all content has anti-Black sentiments.
Front page headlines include: "Moscow Will Not Run Georgia Schools Through U.S. Supreme Court And Ike" "Communistic Voting Record of U.S. Supreme Court Pin Pointed In Senate Speech By Eastland Of Mississippi".
Four pages, 11 by 15 1/4 inches, good condition.

Background: This issue of The Augusta Courier from July 23, 1958, is a potent historical artifact illustrating "Massive Resistance," a concerted strategy by Southern white politicians to obstruct the racial integration mandated by the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court ruling. Published by prominent segregationist and Citizens' Council co-founder Roy V. Harris, the newspaper’s front-page headlines reveal how segregationists weaponized Cold War anxieties to defend Jim Crow laws. By explicitly linking President Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Supreme Court to "Moscow" and amplifying Senator James Eastland’s rhetoric regarding a "Communistic Voting Record," the publication attempted to delegitimize the federal enforcement of civil rights—such as the deployment of federal troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, just a year prior—by framing integration as a subversive, foreign plot rather than a constitutional mandate. Consequently, this four-page document is highly significant to historians studying the weaponization of media, the intersection of anti-communism and white supremacy, and the intense political and social defiance that defined the Jim Crow South during the mid-twentieth century.