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Posts tagged as “Herschel V. Melcher”

Red Scare: 1954 Chamberlain Mayor Threatens Indian Office Supporters

As a footnote to Toby's post on Chamberlain's persistent apartheid, consider this segment of the river city's cultural DNA, a 1954 letter from Mayor Herschel V. Melcher to Washington officials explaining local opposition to a proposal to move the Indian…