NEGROES: Miscegenation

Protests of Negro organizations from many parts of the country, descending about the ears of a Senator, caused him to change his mind. Senator Capper of Kansas is leader of the farm bloc and of the "marriage bloc"—if such a thing there is. In the last Congress he brought forward a Constitutional Amendment and a supplementary bill to make marriage and divorce laws uniform throughout the country. One of the provisions of the bill prohibited " marriage between members of the white and black races or of the white and yellow races."...

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