Louisiana newspapers all but ignored it.
A few even scoffed at it. But the headlines in the North made it seem like a big deal: the segregationist White Citizens Council of New Orleans was offering free one-way transportation to Southern Negroes who wanted to move North.
The idea was far from new, but much of the U.S. press recorded every bellowing boast from the council's man-in-charge-of-the-tickets, brash George L. Singelmann, 46. a personal aide to excommunicated Segregationist Leander Perez.
Singelmann would, he said, fill a train with 1,000 Negroes and send it...
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