Racial Integration Quotes
As enlightened and progressive that his views on Blacks were, he was amazingly racist when it came to Native Americans. See {588991}.
Bilbo was one of the worst racists who ever served in the Congress.
Taft, very progressive on racial matters, was a little too optimistic. The “intelligent” Southerners were in the small minority. Only a week after Taft made this statement, Joseph Gorden, a Negro, was lynched outside Greenwood, Mississippi.
As the slavery debate in America became more bitter abolitionists were physically attacked and sometimes killed for their views, 1840 & 1844.