Speaking at a Ku Klux Klan rally in Atlanta, his son Herman asked, “Why should Nigras butt in and tell white people who should be elected in a white primary?” His father felt the same way and predicted the turn of events would lead to the end of white supremacy in the state. “With the white primary out of the way,” he told a Greensboro audience, “negroes will vote in numbers and repeal our laws requiring [segregation] in schools, hotels, and on trains—even those which prohibit intermarriage.” In his mind, the situation was serious but the solution simple. Asked how they might keep blacks away
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