James Gray wrote a special front-page editorial in his Albany Herald, in which he denounced Albany Negroes’ complaints as “the Hitlerian tactic of the ‘Big Lie’…The Negroes are lying. The Department of Justice knows they are lying…. This sordid effort will fail, as all of the craft and cunning the Negro agitators have employed in their plottings for months have failed…. It will fail because its motivation is essentially evil.”
