Arc of Justice Quotes

“Some of his officers were Klansmen; no one could say for sure how many men on the force had joined the Invisible Empire, but the number was high. But it wasn’t just the Klan’s influence that made his cops angry.”
― Kevin G. Boyle, Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age

“Had he stopped there, Johnny Smith would have placed himself squarely in defense of equal rights and integration. But he didn’t. Instead, he urged black “leaders of thought” to back down, to accept the color line as it stood for the sake of peace and order In the furies of the street, the mayor had found the limits of his electoral coalition.54”
― Kevin G. Boyle, Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age

“Having Negroes in the neighborhood would ruin standards, Harry Monet insisted, dragging whites down to the coloreds’ level, degrading everything people up and down the block had worked so hard to achieve.37”
― Kevin G. Boyle, Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age

“Whites learned to have hair-trigger tempers. If a black person caused the slightest offense—anything at all would do—whites felt free to lash out. It was a right slaveholders once had claimed. Now any white person enjoyed the same privilege.61”
― Kevin G. Boyle, Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age

“State law mandated that white and black schools be separate but equal. But white officials across the state starved black schools of funding. Bartow officials were no exception. Although there were almost as many black as white children in Bartow, the town gave Union Academy only half the appropriation they gave to the white grade schools and far less than they gave to the high school.”
― Kevin G. Boyle, Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age

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― Kevin G. Boyle, Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age