Segregationist Trade Card

Remember Little Rock," as stamped on this trade card, became was a rallying cry for the Association of Citizens Councils, a segregationist group that vowed to fight integration by all legal means. , They protesteding President Dwight D. Eisenhower's use of the U.S. Army and federalized Arkansas National Guard troops to escort the "Little Rock Nine" African American students into Central High on September 25, 1957. The segregationists claimed Eisenhower 's actions were an abuse of federal power and a violation of state's rights. The slogan, accompanied by illustrations of bayonets mounted on federal rifles and soldiers pointing their bayoneted rifles at the backs of white students, were made into ink stamps segregationists used on trade cards, as well as stationary, bumper stickers, newspaper ads and protest signs.

Other segregationist trade card designs ridiculed and threatened the Little Rock Nine, civil rights leaders such as Daisy Gatson Bates, and Little Rock School District administrators.