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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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political, education, and economic rights for African-Americans, even asserting that “democracy is a lie” without such equal rights (qtd. in Herr, 2015). Half the audience burst out with cheers,
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Warren G. Harding: Impact and Legacy. By Eugene P. Trani. Most historians rank Harding as the worst of all American Presidents. Recently, some revisionists see him as an important transitional figure whose easy-going ways helped bridge the gap between Wilsonian idealism and the business prosperity of the Coolidge and Hoover years.
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Similarly, Harding’s support for the Dyer Bill, which would have established lynching as a federal crime, wasn’t voiced in Birmingham. The Dyer Bill passed in the House of Representatives in 1922 but never made it out of the Senate, and new legislation protecting the civil rights of African Americans wasn’t enacted until the Civil Rights ...
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Oct 21, 2016 · 10/21/2016 12:16 AM EDT. On this day in 1921, Warren G. Harding delivered the first speech by a president condemning the lynching of blacks by Southerners. Harding spoke out against these illegal ...
Oct 21, 2021 · The audience was segregated—20,000 whites in the front, 10,000 blacks in the rear. When the President finished, the cheers all came from the back. On race, Warren Harding was in one way a product of his times. He endorsed blacks and whites going their separate ways in social settings if they so chose. He was not a fan of intermarriage.
Jul 9, 2020 · Warren G. Harding is having a moment. ... Harding’s very public support for the rights of Black Americans resonates with contemporary concerns, and the Republican’s response to racism in the ...
