This Presidential Speech on Race Shocked the Nation…in 1921

[MisterBeale]

This is an interesting tid-bit I was unaware of. . .

This Presidential Speech on Race Shocked the Nation…in 1921​

This Presidential Speech on Race Shocked the Nation…in 1921

Ninety-five years ago today, Warren G. Harding traveled deep into the heart of Klan country and delivered a sermon on civil rights that was decades ahead of its time.

narratively.com

". . . But the festivities’ highlight was set for Wednesday, October 26: the day Warren G. Harding, the very popular 29th President of the United States would arrive. He’d been elected in a landslide in the first year that women – many of whom, like him, supported Prohibition – had the right to vote for President. An Ohio Republican, Harding agreed to travel to Birmingham in part as a favor to his old Senate colleague Oscar Underwood, a Democrat. Despite their party differences, Harding and Underwood remained close friends, but Harding had a second reason to visit the solidly Democratic Deep South, one that would not please the white population of the strictly segregated city and state.. . .

"At 11:30 a.m. Harding travelled to a local park that had been recently renamed for Woodrow Wilson – Harding’s predecessor and a vocal racist and open segregationist. A large crowd had gathered; a chain separated the white and black onlookers waiting to hear the President. After remarks by Alabama Governor Thomas Kilby and Birmingham Mayor Nathanial Bartlett, Harding took the stage.. . "

WARREN G. HARDING, “ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AT THE CELEBRATION OF THE SEMICENTENNIAL FOUNDING OF THE CITY OF BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA” (26 OCTOBER 1921)​

Warren G. Harding "Address at Birmingham" Speech Text - Voices of Democracy

WARREN G. HARDING, “ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AT THE CELEBRATION OF THE SEMICENTENNIAL FOUNDING OF THE CITY OF BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA” (26 OCTOBER 1921) [1] Mr. Mayor, Citizens of Birmingham, and People of the South: I have been wondering, as we have seen the Birmingham district...

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President Harding and Social Equality​

by W.E.B. Du Bois

• December, 1921

President Harding and Social Equality

teachingamericanhistory.org

 

[MisterBeale]

That. . . is, a very prophetic statement, by Du Bois, I should think.




"For when Warren Harding or any white man comes to teach Negroes pride of race, we answer that our pride is our business and not theirs, and a thing they would better fear rather than evoke: For the day that Black men love Black men simply because they are Black, is the day they will hate White men simply because they are White."

 

[rupol2000]

that women – many of whom, like him, supported Prohibition – had the right to vote for President.

As a rule, dry law is not in the interests of feminism, since it is a good means of subjugating a man in a family. The alchohol-addict is infantile and cannot be the head. This was widely practiced during the Stagnation in the USSR.
The right-wing governments in the USSR have always introduced a dry law, the left has always abolished it.

 

[sparky]

Many ways exist to pull one's self up in this world, by pulling another down......~S~

 

[Votto]

This is an interesting tid-bit I was unaware of. . .

This Presidential Speech on Race Shocked the Nation…in 1921​

This Presidential Speech on Race Shocked the Nation…in 1921

Ninety-five years ago today, Warren G. Harding traveled deep into the heart of Klan country and delivered a sermon on civil rights that was decades ahead of its time.

narratively.com

". . . But the festivities’ highlight was set for Wednesday, October 26: the day Warren G. Harding, the very popular 29th President of the United States would arrive. He’d been elected in a landslide in the first year that women – many of whom, like him, supported Prohibition – had the right to vote for President. An Ohio Republican, Harding agreed to travel to Birmingham in part as a favor to his old Senate colleague Oscar Underwood, a Democrat. Despite their party differences, Harding and Underwood remained close friends, but Harding had a second reason to visit the solidly Democratic Deep South, one that would not please the white population of the strictly segregated city and state.. . .

"At 11:30 a.m. Harding travelled to a local park that had been recently renamed for Woodrow Wilson – Harding’s predecessor and a vocal racist and open segregationist. A large crowd had gathered; a chain separated the white and black onlookers waiting to hear the President. After remarks by Alabama Governor Thomas Kilby and Birmingham Mayor Nathanial Bartlett, Harding took the stage.. . "

WARREN G. HARDING, “ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AT THE CELEBRATION OF THE SEMICENTENNIAL FOUNDING OF THE CITY OF BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA” (26 OCTOBER 1921)​

Warren G. Harding "Address at Birmingham" Speech Text - Voices of Democracy

WARREN G. HARDING, “ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AT THE CELEBRATION OF THE SEMICENTENNIAL FOUNDING OF THE CITY OF BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA” (26 OCTOBER 1921) [1] Mr. Mayor, Citizens of Birmingham, and People of the South: I have been wondering, as we have seen the Birmingham district...

voicesofdemocracy.umd.edu

President Harding and Social Equality​

by W.E.B. Du Bois

• December, 1921

President Harding and Social Equality

teachingamericanhistory.org

I like this quote

Over chicken and biscuits at the banquet, Harding made a few remarks about his friends in the Senate and the men and women who work in government. He said, “Men who are really worthwhile are simpler than they are appraised, and vastly greater than many partisans have measured them.”

 

[Hang on Sloopy]

This is an interesting tid-bit I was unaware of. . .

This Presidential Speech on Race Shocked the Nation…in 1921​

This Presidential Speech on Race Shocked the Nation…in 1921

Ninety-five years ago today, Warren G. Harding traveled deep into the heart of Klan country and delivered a sermon on civil rights that was decades ahead of its time.

narratively.com

". . . But the festivities’ highlight was set for Wednesday, October 26: the day Warren G. Harding, the very popular 29th President of the United States would arrive. He’d been elected in a landslide in the first year that women – many of whom, like him, supported Prohibition – had the right to vote for President. An Ohio Republican, Harding agreed to travel to Birmingham in part as a favor to his old Senate colleague Oscar Underwood, a Democrat. Despite their party differences, Harding and Underwood remained close friends, but Harding had a second reason to visit the solidly Democratic Deep South, one that would not please the white population of the strictly segregated city and state.. . .

"At 11:30 a.m. Harding travelled to a local park that had been recently renamed for Woodrow Wilson – Harding’s predecessor and a vocal racist and open segregationist. A large crowd had gathered; a chain separated the white and black onlookers waiting to hear the President. After remarks by Alabama Governor Thomas Kilby and Birmingham Mayor Nathanial Bartlett, Harding took the stage.. . "

WARREN G. HARDING, “ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AT THE CELEBRATION OF THE SEMICENTENNIAL FOUNDING OF THE CITY OF BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA” (26 OCTOBER 1921)​

Warren G. Harding "Address at Birmingham" Speech Text - Voices of Democracy

WARREN G. HARDING, “ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AT THE CELEBRATION OF THE SEMICENTENNIAL FOUNDING OF THE CITY OF BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA” (26 OCTOBER 1921) [1] Mr. Mayor, Citizens of Birmingham, and People of the South: I have been wondering, as we have seen the Birmingham district...

voicesofdemocracy.umd.edu

President Harding and Social Equality​

by W.E.B. Du Bois

• December, 1921

President Harding and Social Equality

teachingamericanhistory.org

Good thread. People don't realize that the Republicans started civil rights movements.

That GD Wilson was the biggest racist ever...A Democrap

What I most admired about Harding was he fathered a child in his senate cloths closet with a woman 29 yrs his junior.way to go Warren....lolol

 

[CrusaderFrank]

What a great find!

The democrat Party and the media continues the LIE that they are the Party of Civil Rights

 

[MisterBeale]

What a great find!

The democrat Party and the media continues the LIE that they are the Party of Civil Rights

Well.. . I think the liberals and the folks on the left, often forget, that America's FIRST progressives, were in the Republican party.

They were Teddy's Bull Moose Republicans that set up the National Park system and saving green spaces, and they were very much against crony capitalism capturing the machinery of government.

They understood that if the free market and capitalism were going to survive and not fall to the socialists and the communists, the role of the federal government in protecting the small farmers, organized labor, and small business from the predations of big business and big capitol, the folks in government would have to be vigilant.



. . . I honestly can't tell you what has gone wrong. . .

The last president to have had more folks vote for him, than not have folks sit out, and not vote for either party, was Teddy Roosevelt. Since then, there are more registered voters that decide to not participate in the election, than have always voted for either party.


This last election was the first time, since the election of Teddy, that this pattern has been broken. . . or so some, of the data suggests. Others, disagree. I can't get a clear picture on it. So? It would appear, according to some of the data, Biden is as popular as Teddy. I guess we should make room for Biden on Mount Rushmore?

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[CrusaderFrank]

Well.. . I think the liberals and the folks on the left, often forget, that America's FIRST progressives, were in the Republican party.

They were Teddy's Bull Moose Republicans that set up the National Park system and saving green spaces, and they were very much against crony capitalism capturing the machinery of government.

They understood that if the free market and capitalism were going to survive and not fall to the socialists and the communists, the role of the federal government in protecting the small farmers, organized labor, and small business from the predations of big business and big capitol, the folks in government would have to be vigilant.



. . . I honestly can't tell you what has gone wrong. . .

The last president to have had more folks vote for him, than not have folks sit out, and not vote for either party, was Teddy Roosevelt. Since then, there are more registered voters that decide to not participate in the election, than have always voted for either party.


This last election was the first time, since the election of Teddy, that this pattern has been broken. . . or so some, of the data suggests. Others, disagree. I can't get a clear picture on it. So? It would appear, according to some of the data, Biden is as popular as Teddy. I guess we should make room for Biden on Mount Rushmore?

. . . .

More Negros voted for Biden than for Obama, so you might be onto something there