Regional Problems Quotes
At the end of WWII Black Southern men, who had fought for America and seen many of their fellows killed, returned to a segregated, viciously racist South that was intellectually, educationally, scientifically, and culturally backward compared to the rest of the country. Radio from outside the South reached Southerners and TV was just starting. Yet the white establishment was determined to maintain the status quo.
In the fall session when the legislatures reconvened, there were in many Southern States aggressive attacks on Blacks to suppress their various attempts at equality. Often violence was paramount and Blacks would turn to the President to enforce their equal protection rights of the 14th Amendment which the white Southerners then (and some now) resented. Grant stood up for the principle of enforcement of the 14th Amendment but had little resources to enforce the constitution.
Farmer was actually in jail in Louisiana for "disturbing the peace." The speech which he wrote was actually delivered for him by Floyd McKissick.
