Word: nigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...core was a drum-tight control of the Negro vote. For as Memphians reflect: "The nigger doesn't vote, he is voted." Thus, at any time, day or night, year in, year out, whenever Ed Crump pulled the lever of his political slot machine, he hit the jackpot-a clear majority of 40,000 to 60,000 votes, enough not only to inundate Memphis but to control Tennessee as well...
...sharp voice of a Yankee was unmistakable. It was followed by the drawl of a Southern Negro: "Some Yankee named Ol' John Brown, he raised de debil back in Virginny and freed de niggers all over town; how he want to kick up such dizziness! Nigger business ain't white-folks' business...
...Author Harnett Kane of New Orleans told of Louisiana elections held in white bars or bordellos, which no Negro dared enter. He recalled Huey Long's remark after the Legislature repealed Louisiana's poll tax in 1934: "The white primary will take care of the nigger...
Intellectual Integrity. Grave, intelligent, industrious Editor Dabney is well liked, personally, among Richmond's banker-lawyer-merchant aristocracy. But as an editor they call him everything from a "starry-eyed idealist" to a "nigger lover." Dabney himself says: "I'd like to think that I get by with my views in circles which don't agree with me because I am credited with intellectual integrity, but that might be stretching a point...
Local churches held mixed parties for them. The white children had been well coached on interracial manners. When one let slip the word "nigger" her sister snapped: "Now you stop that! You know what Ma said about saying words like that...