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Dude, huey long wasn`t progressive in race, see this from T harry Williams book https://imgur.com/P9BcNrV |
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[Long] denied a recommendation to appoint a black controller of customs in New Orleans on the grounds that whites would have to call him "mister". |
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Blacks were permitted to attend [Share Our Wealth] rallies so long as they remained around the fringes of the crowd and did not mingle with whites. |
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[Long] told audiences that [...] arch-enemy Lee Thomas (mayor of Shreveport) accepted campaign contributions from blacks. |
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He habitually used the term [N-word], but his printers changed it |
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Long refused to refer the case for arbitration to a subcommittee which included women. "No bunch of damned skirts is going to decide anything affecting me," he said. |
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One of Long's bodyguards testified that Long had become an honorary member of the Alexandria Klan in 1924. Furthermore, Long accepted a $30,000 contribution from Swords Lee, a relative who was a high Klan official, for his 1928 campaign. |
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"You can quote me as saying I'll vote 100 per cent against the Costigan-Wagner anti-lynching bill that's brought up there in Washington," he said. "We just lynch an occasional [N-word]. No federal anti-lynching bill would help that." |
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He provided no pensions or employment benefits to white or black Louisianans- outsiders sometimes attribute Louisiana's welfare net to Huey but the credit actually belongs to his brother Earl, governor in the 1940s and 1950s. In fact, Huey opposed such programs and specifically argued that the money would be wasted on blacks. |
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Blacks were the lowest priority in state hospitals, were underpaid on state jobs, their unionization discouraged, and were sentenced to unduly long prison terms. |
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During the 1932 gubernatorial campaign he attacked a plan for old age pensions advocated by anti-Long candidate Dudley LeBlanc. He complained that LeBlanc's promise of $30 per month for those over 60 would cost $60,000,000. "And LeBlanc is going to pay pensions to negroes, too," Long said, "because don't you think he is going to overlook his lodge brothers. It will cost $20,000,000 a year to pay the negroes' pensions alone, and you white people will be working the year around to pay pensions to negroes." There was nothing in the program Long discussed in either his autobiography or his manifesto, My First Days in the White House, for blacks. He specifically denied to Roy Wilkins that he planned any special economic or political program for blacks. |
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Source: Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association Vol. 33, No. 3 |
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