White Supremacy

South Carolina’s unreconstructed House of Representatives last week was still fighting the War Between the States. The House resolved:

“Whereas, the stench of scalawag and carpetbagger days is too strong and fresh in our recollection to now retrace our steps in that racial direction . . . we indignantly and vehemently denounce . . . all organizations seeking . . . comingling of the (white and Negro) races upon any basis of equality as un-American . . . and solemnly pledge our lives to maintaining (white supremacy) whatever the cost. We demand that henceforth the damned agitators of the North leave the South alone.”

Those who looked beneath the bloody shirt soon learned what the waving was about. A move is afoot to “equalize” the pay of South Carolina’s Negro school teachers. Negro teachers get an average of $70 a month; whites, $90.