oct 26, 1921 - Address on the issue of Race in Birmingham, Al. Calls for political equality and equal educational opportunity but advocates “recognition of the absolute divergence on things social and racial.” “Racial amalgamation there cannot be.” Senator James Thomas Heflin of Alabama was quoted in the Baltimore Sun saying “As far as the South is concerned, we hold to the doctrine that God Almighty has fixed the limits and boundary lines between the two races and no Republican living can improve upon His handiwork.”
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