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...their strange alchemy, Harry Byrd, Lindsay Almond and the Virginia political organization are the real secret of Virginia's segregation struggle. Far from holding to Jefferson's faith in the good sense of the common people, the Byrd organization is an oligarchy, composed of the few, chosen by the few to make decisions for the many. "Let the laws be enforced by the white people of this country," cries Harry Byrd. He does not mean all the white people-or even most of them. Poll taxes and some of the nation's most restrictive registration laws hold...
Like a Club. In its oligarchic context, the Byrd organization is an alliance of gentlemen, and a gentleman is known more by his philosophy and politics than by his purse or pedigree (gentle-born...
Millionaire Byrd* knew hard times as a youth; plain-born Lawyer-Politician Almond is far from wealthy). Almond has described the organization as well as anyone: "It's like a club, except it has no bylaws, constitution or dues. It's a loosely knit association, you might say, between men who share the philosophy of Senator Byrd." Almond need only have added what he himself learned the hard way: that those who deviate from the Byrd philosophy soon cease to be gentlemen by organization standards...
...flunky or errand boy, but as a man who can be trusted to keep Virginia the way Harry Byrd wants to keep it, Lindsay Almond was in full charge of the explosive political program of using legal stratagems to keep Negro children out of white schools...
...young state senator who was campaigning in 1925 for Governor. "I had admired his career in the state senate," recalls Lindsay Almond, "and I knew that he was the kind of man politically who would go places." Almond determined to go places right along with Harry Flood Byrd...