Word: southern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Knowing well that the poll tax is the chief device whereby Southern Democrats prevent Negroes from voting, the wariest politician in the U.S. quickly added that in condemning the poll tax he was not talking about Negroes. They, he said, were a problem to be handled separately. At this remark, political ears pricked. It was the first time Mr. Roosevelt had publicly mentioned one of the most delicate aspects of his new Liberal party. Virginia's Senator Carter Glass declared that Franklin Roosevelt had exhibited "an absolutely superficial knowledge of the matter...
...many Southern Democrats, it was strong medicine when in 1932 Franklin Roosevelt wooed the Northern Black Belt as no Democrat had done in mortal memory. When he gave Negroes prominent seats at his inauguration, put them in bigger jobs than they ever held in a Democratic administration, Southern Democrats tried hard to swallow it as political expediency. Such demagogues as Georgia's Eugene Talmadge gagged for public edification when, during the 1936 campaign, Mrs. Roosevelt was photographed between two young Negro officers of the R.O.T.C. at Washington's Howard University. But in this year's primary fight...
Other notable points in the present relations of Southern Negroes and the New Deal...
...Negroes now have a Washington representative as bold, adroit and effective as any of the white breed. He is Secretary Walter Francis White of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Last January the blacks' Mr. White sat in the Senate visitors' gallery, where Southern members indignantly pointed at him during debate on the Wagner-Van Nuys Anti-Lynching Bill. Lobbyist White claimed to have bagged enough votes to get the bill passed, but a hastily organized Southern filibuster kept it from a vote. Having enjoyed Franklin Roosevelt's benevolent neutrality last time, Lobbyist White...
...popular belief that intelligence knows no geography, that a bright child is just as likely to be born on a southern plantation as in a northern tenement. But Army intelligence tests during the War challenged this theory, and last week, after a careful statistical investigation, an educator concluded that the place where a child is born has a great deal to do with the chances of his being intelligent. Dr. Glenn Myers Blair separated 3,000 junior and senior high-school youngsters in Everett, Wash, into mentally superior and inferior groups and then determined where their parents, nine...