Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

by Jason Reynolds

So, he had to devise a way to turn poor Whites and poor Blacks against each other, so that they’d be forever separated and unwilling to join hands and raise fists against the elite.

Wallace had taken a public stand for segregation the year before, and received 100,000 letters of support, mostly from northerners. Wait. What? Yep. Northerners. Sending in letters in support of Wallace’s stance for segregation.