Interracial Understanding Quotes
This column outraged most of the Southern politicians but was extolled by African Americans and those who opposed segregation in the country. Her husband, the President, remained silent on the issue. That way the Southern segregationists could be grateful that the President did not endorse that they considered un-American statements, and meanwhile those who were outraged by the existence of legal segregation could take heart that the President did not oppose his wife’s statement.