The Race Question in the US: John Tyler Morgan
the Blair bill committed federal education funds to the states to combat illiteracy
morgan wanted to defeat the Blair and Force bills- 1890
playing on white fears of racial mixture, he links the effort to secure black suffrage with the attempt to demand social equality
Du Bois proved false such statements as Morgan’s about the lack of AA achievements in art, science or enterprise
morgan’s rascist attitudes as extreme as they seem, were not as intense as those of others writing at the time
if as is asserted by some, the purpose of these amendments was to protect negro race from active hostility of the white race
the conditions of wealth, education, culture and position are equal, discrimination against the negro race shall cease
decided aversion between white race and indian- one has never submitted to enslavement
In Irving’s “Columbus”, it is stated that whole villages of Indians committed suicide to escape the bondage of slavery and invited other Indians to join them in that dreadful work.
race aversion with marriage relations
if blacks being our equals in political privileges, could be absorbed into our race, as equals , there would be no obstacle to our harmonious and beneficent associaion in this free country but neither lsws nor any form of constraint can force the doors to our homes… 73
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Morton won his reputation as the great data-gatherer and objectivist of American science
the man who would raise an immature enterprise from mires of fanciful speculation
Morton’s Crania Americana – a leader among American polygenists, defended the status of human races as separate, created species
fame from collection of skulls and their role in racial ranking- 3 works on this
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book Crania represented his prejudices
cubic inches of skull male vs female and white vs black
fills skulls and fills, shakes and sees how they hold up
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