Unfriendly City

ID: 3003 ~ Source: Deering, Mark. Interviewed by L. Katherine Cook, May 20, 2003, in Waco, TX. Baylor University Institute for Oral History, Waco, TX. Access full interview here.
This file appears in: Horace Sherman Miller

Catholic Monsignor Mark Deering describes discriminatory attitudes in Waco. After all, he notes, the city harbored Horace Sherman Miller and the Ku Klux Klan.

This file appears in: Horace Sherman Miller

By Allie R. Lopez & Benna Vaughan
Once considered a hub for racist activity, Waco served as headquarters for writer and editor Horace Sherman Miller. An avowed white supremacist, Miller perpetuated and propagated racist ideas in the mid-twentieth century. He printed his newsletter,…