1959 Segregationist Candidate for Senate

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This is a mailer from J.D. Stietenroth, a Mississippi segregationist candidate for Senate, Hinds County. The letter is sent to “Hinds County Permit Department” in Jackson, Mississippi. It is an open letter to Mayor Allen Thompson about electric rates. In the letter he accuses the power company of inappropriate spending on, among other things, whiskey (during a time when Mississippi was a dry state).

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