Read the attacahed documents. Compare and contrast wartime political views of African Americans, ethnic Mexicans, and Jewish refugees. In what way or ways were they similar? In what way or ways were they different? Why? You can choose 2 to compare Here are the two documents I have chosen to compare 1) Here is the real low-down on the situation. There is no doubt that Barkley and other senators, Democratic and Republican, did not want the bill to come up this session during an election year. Barkley is scared of the Connally-Bilbo-Ellender gang.
Read the attacahed documents. Compare and contrast wartime political views of African Americans, ethnic Mexicans, and Jewish refugees. In what way or ways were they similar? In what way or ways were they different? Why? You can choose 2 to compare
Here are the two documents I have chosen to compare
1) Here is the real low-down on the situation.
There is no doubt that Barkley and other
senators, Democratic and Republican, did
not want the bill to come up this session
during an election year. Barkley is scared of
the Connally-Bilbo-Ellender gang. He
planned either not to call the bill up at all or
to do so late in the session when a filibuster
could succeed without much difficulty. Like
most southern white men, and even a great
many northern white men, he believed that
Negroes could be soft-soaped or that at
least the supporters of the anti-lynching bill
could be given some sort of an excuse
which would keep the bill from being made
an issue in the November election. Because
we saw what was coming we kept asking
him when he was going to call up the bill.
He finally lost his temper—and wishes now
that he hadn’t—wrote that intemperate and
wholly unfounded letter and, either
consciously or subconsciously, believed as
most southern white men do that when a
white man speaks to a Negro the latter is
going to accept the white man’s statement
or at any rate not answer back.
Walter White (NAACP secretary) to P.B.
Young, 5/3/40, NAACP Papers
===========================
2) The world beyond our shores is undergoing
a virtual black-out of civil liberties. . . . In the
few remaining lands where democratic
traditions still hold sway, civil liberties have
been drastically curtailed, because of
military necessity or fear of subversive
activities. Their fate rests in the crucible of
war. Even in the democracies, the most
fundamental rights of men will be fully
restored, if at all, only after victory is won by
force of arms. . . . If we are to vindicate our
proud position as the foremost example of
a functioning democracy, if in the eyes of
the world we are to practice what we
preach, we must put an end to the
barbarous practice of lynching. Above all,
the history of these troubled times gives
solemn warning that the threat of mob
violence, tolerated or connived in by local
officials, must be stamped out before its
contagion spreads. To ignore the menace
of the lynching mob is to acquiesce in the
tactics by which dictators rode to power.
Radio Broadcast, Senator Robert F. Wagner,
4/29/42, NAACP Papers
=============================
Trending now
This is a popular solution!
Step by step
Solved in 2 steps
