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Nov 16, 2009 · On October 26, 1921, President Warren G. Harding delivers a speech in Birmingham, Alabama in which he condemns lynchings—extrajudicial murders (usually hangings) committed primarily by white...
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Oct 21, 2016 · As the 1920 Republican presidential nominee, Harding had advocated civil rights for blacks, despite evidence of wide opposition among white voters.
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In a 1921 speech, U.S. President Warren G. Harding argued for economic, political, and educational equality between white and Black Americans. What did this mean then, and what does it mean now?
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Warren G. Harding was a politician and the 29th president of the United States. Harding's campaign for the presidency promised a "return to normalcy." He was elected president on his birthday and inaugurated in 1921, following World War I. After serving as president for less than three years, on August 2, 1923, Harding died unexpectedly of a heart ...
Harding was born on November 2, 1865, in Corsica, Ohio (now known as Blooming Grove). The son of two doctors, George and Phoebe, Harding had four sisters and a brother. To many, including himself, Harding enjoyed an idyllic American childhood, growing up in a small town, attending a one-room schoolhouse, enjoying summers at the local creek and perf...
In 1898, at his wife's urging, Harding began a political career. That year, he won a seat in the Ohio legislature, and subsequently served two terms. An unwavering conservative Republican with a vibrant speaking voice, Harding did favors for city bosses who, in turn, helped him advance in Ohio politics. In 1903, he became lieutenant governor and se...
In 1920, political insider and friend Harry Daugherty began to promote Harding for the Republican presidential nomination. Daugherty believed that Harding "looked like a president." His upbringing was classically homegrown American. He was well-known by Republican leaders, had no major political enemies, was "right" on all the issues and represente...
Harding's administration was determined to roll back the momentum of progressive legislation that had taken place for the past 20 years. He personally overturned or allowed Congress to reverse many policies of the Wilson Administration, and approved tax cuts on higher incomes and protective tariffs. His administration supported limiting immigration...
On August 2, 1923, Harding suffered a massive heart attack and died immediately. In some circles, rumors spread that his wife had poisoned him to prevent him from facing charges of corruption. Her refusal to allow an autopsy only fed the rumors. After a state funeral, Harding's body was entombed at the Marion Cemetery in Marion, Ohio.
Though rumors circulated while he was in office, it wasn't until after Harding's death that news of his extramarital affairs became public. One of his lovers, Nan Britton, published a book in 1927, claiming that Harding had fathered her daughter while he was a senator. The allegation was a media sensation, and the Britton family was vilified and hu...
Most historians consider Harding to be one of America's worst presidents. He is believed to have seen the role of president as mainly ceremonial, leaving government work to subordinates. Revisionists have re-examined his role as an important transition between the Progressive Era and the years of prosperity in the 1920s. Harding is also credited fo...
Expand Timeline. President Harding and Social Equality. Civil Rights Movement. Political Culture. Presidency. Race and Equality. by W.E.B. Du Bois. December, 1921. Image: W.E.B. Du Bois. Study Questions. No study questions. For fifty years we who, pro and con, have discussed the Negro Problem, have been skulking behind a phrase — “Social Equality.”
Oct 26, 2021 · President Harding pushed for racial equality in the deep South 100 years ago. Andy Ware. Guest Columnist. 0:03. 0:50. One-hundred years ago today, Marion County's home-grown president stood...
Warren G. Harding explains his unwillingness to have the U.S. join the League of Nations. Harding made it clear when he appointed Hughes as Secretary of State that the former justice would run foreign policy, a change from Wilson's hands-on management of international affairs.
