“THEIR OWN HOTHEADEDNESS”: SENATOR BENJAMIN R. ‘PITCHFORK BEN’ TILLMAN JUSTIFIES VIOLENCE AGAINST SOUTHERN BLACKS.
In this blatantly racist speech before the U.S. Senate in 1900, Senator Benjamin R. “Pitchfork Ben” Tillman of South Carolina defends white violence against black Southerners.
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/55/
OPINION: NOV 11, 1910
A white supremicist opinion column from the Baltimore Sun, quoted in The Crisis in order to highlight continued racism in Baltimore.
http://www.yale.edu/glc/archive/978.htm
THE SOUTHERN VIEW
This statement illustrates the extreme racist sentiments that were common in the South in the first half of the 20th century, propelling many African-American citizens to the North.
http://www.pbs.org/gointochicago/migrations/southern1.html
AFRO-AMERICANS MUST KEEP ON ONE SIDE OF SIDEWALK
An article that appeared in a 1915 issue of the Chicago Defender which describes an incident in Virginia in which a mayor issued an order to arrest any “Negro child” who “obstructed the sidewalks where white children were passing.”
http://www.yale.edu/glc/archive/981.htm