Crowd at the Arkansas State Capitol protesting school integration, with signs reading "Race mixing is Communism," Little Rock, Arkansas
A speaker addresses a crowd at the Arkansas State Capitol on 20 August 1959 at a rally against the integration of Little Rock's schools. Hand-lettered signs read 'Race mixing is Communism' and 'Stop the race mixing', and American flags are held above the crowd. The signs attach a high-stigma Cold War word to school integration, and the flags lend national symbolism to the protest.
- Date
- August 20, 1959
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Segregationist protesters at the Arkansas State Capitol, Little Rock
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Photograph
- Issuer type
- Movement
- Regime
- Eisenhower Administration
- Leader
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Race and ethnicity, Elections and party politics
- Event
- Little Rock Integration Crisis
- Techniques
- Semantic hijackingTransfer
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Library of Congress, retrieved September 28, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. News & World Report photo; LoC: No known restrictions on publication)
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Text on the object
RACE MIXING [illegible — smaller text below] STOP THE RACE MIXING [illegible — smaller text below]
The only file committed to this entry is a 150x101px LoC thumbnail (the item's small preview image), so the two nearest hand-lettered signs are legible only for their large top lines; smaller text beneath each, and a third sign further right, are too low-resolution to transcribe. A higher-resolution version may exist at the LoC item page (source.pageUrl) but was not fetched for this entry.
