Word: ottley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Grand Dragon Dr. Samuel J. Green of the Ku Klux Klan gave an interview for The Nation to Negro Journalist Roi Ottley, who told Green that scientific thought and world opinion ran counter to the theory of Negro inferiority. Insisted Green: "I'm still livin' in Georgia, no matter what the world and science thinks." Why, asked Ottley, do Klansmen wear disguises? Explained the Grand Dragon: "So many people are prejudiced against the Klan these days...
...equal legal and civic rights. Harlem's Roi Ottley, seven years a reporter for the Amsterdam News, summed up in his recently published New World A-Coming: "In a word, the Negro wants democracy." But nowhere was the way the Negro hopes to reach his goal clearly stated. Author Ottley, who shares most Negroes' belief that leadership must come from Franklin Roosevelt, confessed to a large uncertainty about the Negro's future...