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Dec 2, 2011 · But Michigan Gov. George Romney — father of Mitt Romney, of course former CEO of American Motors — was the media darling at the time with his slicked back grey hair and his no-nonsense style.
Oct 29, 2012 · Romney, the former governor of Michigan and father of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, held his ground. Notations and memos in his private papers show that he viewed the blighted...
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Collection of James M. Caselli and Jonathan Mark Scharer. Blackface and the codifying of blackness— language, movement, deportment, and character—as caricature persists through mass media and in public performances today.
George W. Romney. George Wilcken Romney (July 8, 1907 – July 26, 1995) was an American businessman and politician. A member of the Republican Party, he served as chairman and president of American Motors Corporation from 1954 to 1962, the 43rd governor of Michigan from 1963 to 1969, and 3rd secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 1969 ...
President Richard Nixon appointed George Romney as the nation’s first Secretary for Housing and Urban Development. Secretary Romney created “Operation Breakthrough,” a program to further fair housing, breaking what he called the “white noose” by opening white suburbia to African-Americans.
Feb 13, 2019 · The portrayal of blackface–when people darken their skin with shoe polish, greasepaint or burnt cork and paint on enlarged lips and other exaggerated features—is steeped in centuries of racism....
Aug 13, 2012 · Romney could not bring himself to condemn his church publicly (in spite of his private views) for its policy of denying the "priesthood" to black men. In 1964, the year King won the Nobel Peace...
