Carolina QuotesThe white men of the South were aroused by the mere instinct of self-preservation to rid themselves, by fair means or foul, of the intolerable burden of governments sustained by the votes of ignorant negroes.
Woodrow Wilson Connected to the Carolinas
Source
A History of the American People (1902), Documentary Edition, Vol. IX, p. 58
- year
- 1902
- locator
- p. 58
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