re: #46 Backwoods_Sleuth

Chuck is awake and is an expert on Jim Crow laws and its history that it’s the Democrats.

Because, Coolidge…

O_o

Calvin Coolidge didn’t like Jim Crow, it’s a fact, but he didn’t do much to prevent its negative effects on black people. The one chance he had, the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, saw him be far too passive. In the end it was then-Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover who coordinated the federal relief efforts, such as they were. To be fair, that kind of resource management and allocation was something Herbert Hoover was exceptionally good at, but had Coolidge visited the areas near the flood zone and urged more aid, more would have been forthcoming.

The one clear positive thing Calvin Coolidge did for non-whites was to give his support to legislation that made all Native Americans US citizens. Though again, more should have been done, it was a clear step in the right direction.