Word: southerners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...moonshine to suggest that a question of social equality was involved in my wife's going to a White House tea. My wife was not invited because she was white or black, Republican or Democrat. . . . She was invited because she happened to be the wife of a Congressman. . . . These Southern Democrats, these haters, are trying to stir up prejudice and help themselves politically. . . . There can be no question of social equality between races. . . . It is a matter of individual taste...
Arrayed against Congressman De Priest was many a southern politician. Virginia's Republican Representative Joseph C. Shaffer, refusing the De Priest musicale invitation, warned the Negro congressman: "You are now embarking on a perilous course which will, if you continue, disturb relations which have long been amicably settled in the South." Democratic Representative Robert Alexis Green, wearer of flowing Windsor ties, announced that he would never again attend a White House function as long as the Hoovers were there. On the floor of the Senate, South Carolina's Senator Blease, coarsely harangued Mrs. Hoover, had the clerk read into...
...storm of nationwide editorial comment, the Jackson (Miss.) Daily News led Southern shouters by declaring that "The De Priest incident has placed President and Mrs. Hoover beyond the pale of social recognition by Southern people." It advised them not to visit the South...
...Less than one out of three Negroes lynched is even charged with rape of, or advances to, white women. White women have not half the attraction for Negro men that Negro women have for white men?say Negro men. Many a Southern gentleman had, and has, children by his cook. Author White points out that Southern white women themselves frown on lynching as a means of protecting their virtue, which Negroes protected during the Civil War, when white husbands were away. Lynchers, usually sexual perverts, seldom wait for confirmation of alleged attacks. A rumor, a whisper, a bloodthirsty suggestion...
...appear that the new institution would be at all a Drum enterprise. To most Californians, Banker Crocker is perhaps more a symbol than an individual-a symbol of wealth, position, dignity, correctness. He is the only living son of Charles Crocker, who was one of the founders of Southern Pacific railroad. The Crocker First National Bank was created by Charles Crocker with the single sweeping gesture of writing a check for $500,000. Banker Crocker inherited the First National, has many times multiplied the family wealth. At Yale (class of '82) he specialized in boxing, now plays excellent golf...