Same Tactics for 80 Years…

86 Cong. Rec. (Bound) - House of Representatives:May 27, 1940

I want to call attention to the fact that one of the most cruel and inhuman activities of these "fifth columns" has been with reference to the Negroes of this country. For years the Communists, and probably the Nazis and the Fascists, have been working among the colored people of this Nation trying to stir them up against the white people of the country, and particularly in the South.

Just the other day we had the most astonishing manifestation of it I have ever known when the so-called Negro Congress met here in Washington and declared that if we got into a war with Communist Russia they would not fight for the United States. Some of the better Negroes got up and walked out. One said, "You are trying to add to our handicap of being black the additional handicap of being 'red.' " He knew what it meant. The sensible, law-abiding Negroes of the South know what it means.

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