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the polls with shotguns Wis Actuated by any such base and unconstitutional motives, he
found his case thrown out. In the last analysis, he lost his vote because of the attitude
of the Supreme Court.”*
Thomas P. Bailey, Race Orthodox-^ if. the South (1914), pp. 60-61.
Marian D. Irish, “The Southern One-Party System and National Politics,” The
Journal of Politics (February, 1942), p. 82.
20 Minority of Our Own,” New York Times (April 3, 1942).
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“For the nation, therefore, the fair position would seem to be that the South is
entitled to work out this extremely important and extremely delicate question in the
way in which they have begun, without further disastrous interference such as occurred
during the reconstruction period.”**
“For the dominant political party in a third of the United States to rule that in
1942 only qualified ‘white voters* shall be allowed to participate in* the selection of the
officials of our democratic government would be an anachronism too dangerous to
democratic principles and Christian ideals to be preserved for the sake of old days and
old ways.”®
Woofter. Of. cit.y p. 1 51.
Chapter 24. Inequality of Justice
^
“In many a small town and city [of the South], the mayor and councilmcn offer
for election with a complete list of police and other public officers.**^*
^Willis D. Weatherford and Charles S. Johnson, Race Relations (1934), p. 61.
^
W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (1903), p. 176. Italics ours.
^As early as 1904, Murphy recognized the “morbid and exaggerated solidarity”
among Negroes against the white agencies of justice as the “blind moving of the instinct
of self-protection,”* Weatherford observes how the reaction breaks down “ . , . one of
the most powerful deterrents of crime; namely, the loss of ?tatus among those who are
of the same class as the possible criminal.”^
The Negro spokesmen generally do not deny the charges against their people of
being inclined to shield criminals of their own race. But they unanimously point to the
defects in the working of justice as the explanation:
“The Negro feels that he cannot expect justice from Southern courts wh’ere white
and black are involved. In his mind accusation is equivalent to condemnation. . . . The
very spirit in which, he feels, the law is administered makes it difficult for the colored
^ Negro Americans^ What Now? pp, 56-57.
*’T, J. Wooftcr, Jr., The Basis of Racial Adjustment (1925), p. 167.
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