An editorial cartoon in the Citizens' Council newspaper, July 1959, demonizing teachers and...

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An editorial cartoon in the Citizens’ Council newspaper, July 1959, demonizing teachers and condemning assertions of racial equality, civil rights activism (note the NAACP poster) and integrated education.

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1. We fought it then, we'll fight it again.

You've got to be taught to hate and fear
You've got to be taught from year to year
It's got to be drummed in your dear little ear
You've got to be carefully taught

You've got to be taught to be afraid
Of people whose eyes are oddly made
And people whose skin is a diff'rent shade
You've got to be carefully taught

You've got to be taught before it's too late
Before you are six or seven or eight
To hate all the people your relatives hate
You've got to be carefully taught


Carefully Taught, a show tune from the 1949 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific.