In the decade following the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision, the ruling of desegregation and the feared threat toward white supremacy caused many southern legislators to implement barriers to racial integration in their respective states. This included the state of Louisiana. Louisiana officials claimed that federal overreach and the alleged threat of Communism sweeping through the nation posed a threat to Louisiana’s “way of life” and its “sovereignty.” The Brown ruling and the 1960 New Orleans School Crisis (where a New Orleans school was integrated for the first time in the state) sparked the creation and participation of Louisiana legislators in committees created for the express purpose of opposing integration and implementing civil rights under the guise of protecting the state from alleged Communist threats. In the 1960 Regular Session, the Louisiana State Legislature passed House Concurrent Resolution No. 13 establishing the Joint Legislative committee on Un-American Activities modeled on the national version created in the 1930s. The Louisiana Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Louisiana President of the Senate were tagged to each select five members from their respective houses to serve on the Committee. This Resolution also gave the Committee expansive, albeit vague, power regarding its activities and investigations, “Be It Further Resolved that the Committee shall have the authority to…Do any and all other things necessary or convenient to enable it fully and adequately to exercise its powers, perform its duties, and accomplish the objects and purposes of this resolution…” This collection contains several booklets published by the Louisiana Joint Legislative Committee on Un-American Activities: Special Report – Louisiana Joint Legislative Committee Subversion in Racial Unrest – Louisiana Joint Legislative Committee Segregation Measures – Louisiana Joint Legislative Committee Report 1 – “The Case of Dr. Waldo McNerr” Report 2 – “Communist Propaganda Infiltration in Louisiana” Report 3 - Activities of “The Nation of Islam” or the Muslim Cult of Islam in Louisiana Reports 4-6 “Activities of the Southern Conference Educational Fund, Inc. in Louisiana” Report 7 – Activities of the Ku Klux Klan and Certain Other Organizations in Louisiana Report 8 – Aspects of the Poverty Program in the South Report 9 – The Spartacist League and Certain Other Communist Activities in South Louisiana Report 10- Students for a Democratic Society and the New Left: Their Danger to the Educational Institution of the State of Louisiana Other materials in this collection can be viewed in person at the Louisiana State Archives.

In the decade following the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision, the ruling of desegregation and the feared threat toward white supremacy caused many southern legislators to implement barriers to racial integration in their respective states. This included the state of Louisiana. Louisiana officials claimed that federal overreach and the alleged threat of Communism sweeping through the nation posed a threat to Louisiana’s “way of life” and its “sovereignty.” The Brown ruling and the 1960 New Orleans School Crisis (where a New Orleans school was integrated for the first time in the state) sparked the creation and participation of Louisiana legislators in committees created for the express purpose of opposing integration and implementing civil rights under the guise of protecting the state from alleged Communist threats. In the 1960 Regular Session, the Louisiana State Legislature passed House Concurrent Resolution No. 13 establishing the Joint Legislative committee on Un-American Activities modeled on the national version created in the 1930s. The Louisiana Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Louisiana President of the Senate were tagged to each select five members from their respective houses to serve on the Committee. This Resolution also gave the Committee expansive, albeit vague, power regarding its activities and investigations, “Be It Further Resolved that the Committee shall have the authority to…Do any and all other things necessary or convenient to enable it fully and adequately to exercise its powers, perform its duties, and accomplish the objects and purposes of this resolution…” This collection contains several booklets published by the Louisiana Joint Legislative Committee on Un-American Activities: Special Report – Louisiana Joint Legislative Committee Subversion in Racial Unrest – Louisiana Joint Legislative Committee Segregation Measures – Louisiana Joint Legislative Committee Report 1 – “The Case of Dr. Waldo McNerr” Report 2 – “Communist Propaganda Infiltration in Louisiana” Report 3 - Activities of “The Nation of Islam” or the Muslim Cult of Islam in Louisiana Reports 4-6 “Activities of the Southern Conference Educational Fund, Inc. in Louisiana” Report 7 – Activities of the Ku Klux Klan and Certain Other Organizations in Louisiana Report 8 – Aspects of the Poverty Program in the South Report 9 – The Spartacist League and Certain Other Communist Activities in South Louisiana Report 10- Students for a Democratic Society and the New Left: Their Danger to the Educational Institution of the State of Louisiana Other materials in this collection can be viewed in person at the Louisiana State Archives.

In the decade following the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision, the ruling of desegregation and the feared threat toward white supremacy caused many southern legislators to implement barriers to racial integration in their respective states. This included the state of Louisiana. Louisiana officials claimed that federal overreach and the alleged threat of Communism sweeping through the nation posed a threat to Louisiana’s “way of life” and its “sovereignty.” The Brown ruling and the 1960 New Orleans School Crisis (where a New Orleans school was integrated for the first time in the state) sparked the creation and participation of Louisiana legislators in committees created for the express purpose of opposing integration and implementing civil rights under the guise of protecting the state from alleged Communist threats. In the 1960 Regular Session, the Louisiana State Legislature passed House Concurrent Resolution No. 13 establishing the Joint Legislative committee on Un-American Activities modeled on the national version created in the 1930s. The Louisiana Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Louisiana President of the Senate were tagged to each select five members from their respective houses to serve on the Committee. This Resolution also gave the Committee expansive, albeit vague, power regarding its activities and investigations, “Be It Further Resolved that the Committee shall have the authority to…Do any and all other things necessary or convenient to enable it fully and adequately to exercise its powers, perform its duties, and accomplish the objects and purposes of this resolution…” This collection contains several booklets published by the Louisiana Joint Legislative Committee on Un-American Activities: Special Report – Louisiana Joint Legislative Committee Subversion in Racial Unrest – Louisiana Joint Legislative Committee Segregation Measures – Louisiana Joint Legislative Committee Report 1 – “The Case of Dr. Waldo McNerr” Report 2 – “Communist Propaganda Infiltration in Louisiana” Report 3 - Activities of “The Nation of Islam” or the Muslim Cult of Islam in Louisiana Reports 4-6 “Activities of the Southern Conference Educational Fund, Inc. in Louisiana” Report 7 – Activities of the Ku Klux Klan and Certain Other Organizations in Louisiana Report 8 – Aspects of the Poverty Program in the South Report 9 – The Spartacist League and Certain Other Communist Activities in South Louisiana Report 10- Students for a Democratic Society and the New Left: Their Danger to the Educational Institution of the State of Louisiana Other materials in this collection can be viewed in person at the Louisiana State Archives.