J. B. Stoner gubernatorial campaign collection 1970

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J. B. Stoner gubernatorial campaign collection 1970

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Included in this collection are campaign committee newsletters, flyers, a bumper sticker, and many news clippings from white supremacist J. B. Stoner's 1970 campaign for Governor of Georgia. Stoner was defeated in the gubernatorial election by Jimmy Carter, who was elected President of the United States in 1976.

1 box (3 folders)

eng,

University of Kansas Kenneth Spencer Research Library Wilcox Collection, Kansas Collection

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SNAC Resource ID: 6353662

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Stoner, Jesse Benjamin, 1924-2005

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Jesse Benjamin Stoner, Jr. was born in 1924 in north Georgia. As a strong proponent of white supremacy and racial segregation during the civil rights era, Stoner revived a chapter of the Ku Klux Klan in Chattanooga, Tennessee when he was eighteen. He later founded several anti-Semitic political parties, ran for high political offices in Georgia as an avowed white supremacist, and served on the legal team for James Earl Ray, who was convicted of the 1968 assassination of civil rights leader Marti...