Is God A White Racist? by William R. Jones

Olin DeWitt Talmadge Johnston was governor of SouthĬarolina from 1935 to 19 to 1945, and wasĮlected to the U.S. Greenville (S.C.) News, “75 Negroes, More than 100 Whites Gather for Special Johnston Meet,” June 16, 1938. I don’t run from niggers, but I run them from me. The opportunity, they will demonstrate once again that People of Arkansas have solid convictions and, if offered Racine (Wis.) Journal Times, “Woman Candidate, Legislator Vie in Dem Runoff Primary in Arkansas,” August 13, 1968Īctive in Arkansas politics and strongly supported She ran for governor inġ968 on a platform that publicly affirmed her segregationist The amendment remained in the state constitution until Guy Lancaster, Arkansas in Ink: Gunslingers, Ghosts, and Other Graphic Tales (Little Rock, Ark.: Butler Center Books, 2014), 38. The Arkansas Legislature to defy Brown “in every Wife of Arkansas Supreme Court Justice Jim Johnson.Īs a member of the staff of the Arkansas State Senateįrom 1951 to 1953, Johnson promoted her husband’sīallot initiative to amend the state constitution to require Virginia Johnson was an Arkansas politician and the įayetteville (Ark.) Northwest Arkansas Times, “Virginia Johnson No Laughing Matter to Her Five Opponents,” July 9, 1968. National Park Service, “Civil Rights in America: Racial Voting Rights” (2009).

until litigation by the Justice Department restored

In Washington Parish and 75 percent in Ouachita Parish These tactics reduced the Black electorate by 85 percent Targeting the credentials of Black registrants for scrutiny. Thousands of Black voters by requiring literacy tests and Mounted a campaign to systematically disenfranchise Rainach and other leaders of the White Citizens’ Council National Association for the Advancement of the Ĭolored People to integrate our schools.” In Rainach’s words, “A vote against these bills isĪn open invitation to the carpetbaggers, scalawags, and Bartley, The Rise of Massive Resistance: Race and Politics in the South during the 1950’s (Louisiana State University Press, 1999), 74. Schools, and criminalized all efforts to violate segregation

School, withheld books and lunches from integrated Nullify graduation certificates from any integrated public The legislature directed the state board of education to Joint Legislative Committee to Maintain Segregation, To 1960, stridently opposed Brown and fought to delay “Willie” Rainach, whose tenure lasted from 1940 Of civil rights in the Louisiana State Legislature, William Widely regarded as one of the most virulent opponents Shreveport (La.) Times, “Rainach Leaves Mark on State, National Politics,” January 27, 1978. I do not believe the two societies should mix.

Is God A White Racist? by William R. Jones