WESTBROOK PEGLER
(Francis James Westbrook Pegler)
Miscegenation means race mixing. Right wing extremists of the time were often fascist and racist as well as politically very conservative. Note that Pegler’s “denial of personal rights to individuals” did not include the laws against racial intermarriage and the right of two individuals to marry whom they pleased. At the time many of the Southern states had laws against racial intermarriage—laws that were subsequently declared unconstitutional by the lower courts and upheld by the Supreme Court.
Francis James Westbrook Pegler was an American journalist and writer. He was a popular columnist in the 1930s and 1940s famed for his opposition to the New Deal and labor unions. Pegler aimed his pen at presidents of both parties, including Herbert Hoover, FDR ("moosejaw"), Harry Truman ("a thin-lipped hater"), and John F. Kennedy. He also criticized the Supreme Court, the tax system, and corrupt labor unions. In 1962, he lost his contract with King Features Syndicate, owned by the Hearst Corporation, after he started criticizing Hearst executives. His late writing appeared sporadically in publications that included the John Birch Society's American Opinion.