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Footnote 1:
Virginius Dabney, “Nearer and Nearer the Precipice,” _The Atlantic
Monthly_ (January 1943).
Footnote 2:
From the _Atlanta Manifesto_ issued by white Southern citizens in
1944. Italics mine.
Footnote 3:
From _Southern Legacy_.
Footnote 4:
The courts denied Holcutt, a North Carolina Negro, the right to enroll
in the State University. The courts upheld Sweatt’s suit for the same
right in Texas.
Footnote 5:
Marcus Garvey was a West Indian Negro who aroused a considerable
interest, and organized a great following, back in the 1920’s, around
the slogan “Back to Africa.”
Footnote 6:
See his speech to Congress on August 24, 1919.
Footnote 7:
Jay Lovestone, “The Sixth World Congress of the Communist
International,” _Communist_, VII, No. 11; Nov. 1928, pp. 673–674.
Footnote 8:
William F. Dunne, “Negroes in American Industries,” _Workers Monthly_,
IV, No. 6; Apr. 1925.
Footnote 9:
Nor, it seems, are white colleges. Gordon Allport’s study “Is
Intergroup Education Possible?” (_Harvard Educational Review_, Vol.
15, No. 2), indicates that white college graduates, though more
democratic than white high-school graduates, are not enough so to
ensure the survival of democracy.
Footnote 10:
The quotations are from an Associated Press dispatch in the _New York
Times_ dated Columbia, S. C., January 24, 1951, and printed in the
paper on January 25, 1951.
Footnote 11:
Quoted from John H. Van Evrie’s _White Supremacy and Negro
Subordination; or, Negroes a Subordinate Race_ (1867).
Footnote 12:
W. E. B. DuBois, _Dusk of Dawn_ (New York: Harcourt, Brace and
Company, 1940), pp. 27–28. Reprinted by permission of the publishers.
Footnote 13:
John W. Burgess, _Reconstruction and the Constitution_ (New York:
Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1903), p. 133. Reprinted by permission of the
publishers.
Footnote 14:
J. Saunders Redding, _No Day of Triumph_ (New York: Harper & Brothers,
1942), p. 43. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.
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