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we remember the RACIST monsters who kicked African Americans out of their own Republican Party
The Lily-White Movement
The effort was largely successful in eliminating African-American influence in the Republican Party.
#BHM
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lily-white_movement
we remember the RACIST monsters who kicked African Americans out of their own Republican Party The Lily-White Movement
The effort was largely successful in eliminating African-American influence in the Republican Party.
#BHM
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lily-white_movement
The first monster on our list, Mr. James P. Newcomb.
He was one of the main leaders of the early “Lily White” Movement in Texas.
“There is but ONE way open to Republican success, and that is that the white republican come forward and take charge of party management.”
He was one of the main leaders of the early “Lily White” Movement in Texas.
“There is but ONE way open to Republican success, and that is that the white republican come forward and take charge of party management.”
“The NEGRO troubles are resulting in the great masses of colored people shutting out WHITE immigration.”
— James P. Newcomb (“Lily White” Republican leader in Texas, 1884)
— James P. Newcomb (“Lily White” Republican leader in Texas, 1884)
Next on our list, C. Bascom Slemp, #whitesupremacist, conservative politician who helped to make the Republican Party WHITE, by divorcing it from its NEGRO element.
"He has kicked Negroes out of his own party convention" and "brazenly declared himself opposed to Negro suffrage”.
"He has kicked Negroes out of his own party convention" and "brazenly declared himself opposed to Negro suffrage”.
“Surveying the arguments against Slemp, the recently-established TIME Magazine noted first, "that he was appointed…to round up Southern delegates for Mr. Coolidge," second, "that he is a "Lily White '...”
... politician trying to make the Republican organization in the South white, by divorcing it from the Negro element," ...
... third, that "he has been accused, not without reason, of selling appointments, if not for his private gain, at least for the Party purse," and, fourth, "that his name is C. Bascom Slemp."
The Lily White Movement - North Carolina
In North Carolina a “small number” of white Republicans wanted to take control of the party entirely.
They found their monster in Jeter Connelly Pritchard who became the early leader of The Lily-White Movement in North Carolina.
In North Carolina a “small number” of white Republicans wanted to take control of the party entirely.
They found their monster in Jeter Connelly Pritchard who became the early leader of The Lily-White Movement in North Carolina.
NEGROES LOSE FIGHT IN NORTH CAROLINA; Pritchard's "Lilly Whites" Recognized by the President. Politicians in Washington Are Puzzled by Contradictory Aspects of Mr. Roosevelt's Policy in the South.
Important Lily-white leaders
* Herbert Hoover, Republican President between 1929 and 1933. He had alliances with black leaders, but broke with them in 1928 to gain Lily-white support in the South.
* Herbert Hoover, Republican President between 1929 and 1933. He had alliances with black leaders, but broke with them in 1928 to gain Lily-white support in the South.
The Lily White Movement: Virginia
The "Lily White" Movement: A Republican Party response to being labled "the Party of the Negro"
Despite black support, the Republican party increased efforts to recover white votes through a "lily white" movement.
http://www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/afam/politics/party.html
The "Lily White" Movement: A Republican Party response to being labled "the Party of the Negro"
Despite black support, the Republican party increased efforts to recover white votes through a "lily white" movement.
http://www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/afam/politics/party.html
The Republican party proclaimed that it was a white man's party and had no room to accomodate African Americans. In "WILL IT WORK," published August 13, 1900, The Daily Progress questioned the feasibility and fairness of excluding African Americans from the Republican Party.
The African-American Republican leaders felt the full effects of the "lily white" movement when they, along with their delegation, were barred from the Republican Congressional Convention held at Luray in July, 1922. Charlottesville sent two delegations to this convention.
One, led by R.N. Flannagan (President of the Henry Anderson Independent Club), was all white. The other, led by City Chairman L.W. Cox, included four African Americans. The convention decided to dismiss the Cox delegation and seat the "lily-white" faction of Charlottesville.
Daily Progress article, "NEGROES AGAIN BARRED FROM G.O.P. CONVENTION." Reported the dismissal of the Cox delegation and the seating of Flannagan's "lily-white" delegation.
Charlottesville's African Americans had been very active in Republican party politics at the turn of the century.
Meeting accounts from report extensive participation by local African Americans such as Charles E. Coles, George P. Inge and J.T.S. Taylor.
http://www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/afam/politics/profiles.html#coles
Meeting accounts from report extensive participation by local African Americans such as Charles E. Coles, George P. Inge and J.T.S. Taylor.
http://www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/afam/politics/profiles.html#coles
https://cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/sites.usc.edu/dist/2/77/files/2018/01/lily-whites-2foeqjq.pdf
http://www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/afam/politics/newsclipping.html#19220723
http://www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/afam/politics/party.html
http://www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/afam/politics/newsclipping.html#19220723
http://www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/afam/politics/party.html
Black Disaffection From the Republican Party During the Presidency of Herbert Hoover, 1928-1932
https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=8734&context=annals-of-iowa
https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=8734&context=annals-of-iowa
Lily-White Politics - North Carolina https://www.ncpedia.org/lily-white-politics
References:
Eric Anderson, Race and Politics in North Carolina, 1872-1901: The Black Second (1981).
Edward L. Ayers, The Promise of the New South: Life after Reconstruction (1992).
Helen Edmonds, The Negro and Fusion Politics in North Carolina, 1850-1900 (1954).
Eric Anderson, Race and Politics in North Carolina, 1872-1901: The Black Second (1981).
Edward L. Ayers, The Promise of the New South: Life after Reconstruction (1992).
Helen Edmonds, The Negro and Fusion Politics in North Carolina, 1850-1900 (1954).
Richard B. Sherman, The Republican Party and Black America: From McKinley to Hoover, 1896-1933 (1972).
"Lily White and Hard Right": The #Mississippi Republican Party and Black Voting, 1965-1980
Yerger's Revisionist ‘Lily White' History
http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2009/may/12/yergers-revisionist-lily-white-history/
Yerger's Revisionist ‘Lily White' History
http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2009/may/12/yergers-revisionist-lily-white-history/
Weakened to the point of irrelevancy, southern Republicans after 1900 embraced Jim Crow as a way to curry favor with the political power structure. They abandoned black voters in order to preserve their grasp on issues as basic as patronage jobs dispensed by the national party.
Through political factions such as the “lily white” movement, which excluded blacks, and “black and tan” societies, which extended only token political roles to African Americans, the party ceased to serve as an outlet for the politically active cadre of southern black voters.
Gradually, African-American leaders at the national level began to abandon their loyalty to the GOP. While the party’s political strategy of creating a competitive wing in the postwar South was not incompatible with the promotion of black civil rights,
by the 1890s party leaders were in agreement that Republicans needed southern white voters more than they needed southern black voters. “Equalitarian ideals,” explained a leading historian, “had to be sacrificed to the exigencies of practical politics.” https://history.house.gov/Exhibitions-and-Publications/BAIC/Historical-Essays/Temporary-Farewell/Party-Realignment/
In the decade after the 1876 presidential election, the Republican-dominated state governments in the South, which had provided the basis for black political participation during Reconstruction, were undermined by former Confederates and their sympathizers who rebuilt the ...
who rebuilt the Democratic Party and seized control of southern state governments by brutally suppressing black voters and eliminating the power of the Republican Party below the Mason-Dixon line. https://history.house.gov/Exhibitions-and-Publications/BAIC/Historical-Essays/Temporary-Farewell/Introduction/
The electoral crisis of 1876 also revealed fissures within the GOP, as many party stalwarts focused on commercial issues rather than on the civil rights agenda previously pursued by the Radical Republicans. This period marked the beginning of a “multi-generational deterioration”
... of the relationship between black and white Republicans.2 By the 1890s, most African Americans had either been barred from or abandoned electoral politics as extralegal violence and economic reprisals became a constant threat. https://history.house.gov/Exhibitions-and-Publications/BAIC/Historical-Essays/Temporary-Farewell/Introduction/
The above information has been made available for informational and educational purposes only.
NOTE: There is a total blackout of all information about the racist history of The Lily White movement in the Republican Party.
Both political parties, Democrat Party, and GOP official party websites have no references to this event ever happening.
It’s like it never happened.
Both political parties, Democrat Party, and GOP official party websites have no references to this event ever happening.
It’s like it never happened.
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They’re attempting to remove certain articles, or make sure the hyperlink, or the links about the Lily White movement when clicked go to pages other than it’s intended purpose.
That’s why I always provide primary sources.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lily-white_movement
That’s why I always provide primary sources.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lily-white_movement
