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Thomas Goode Jones and African American civil rights in the New South. (white southern leader)

From: The Historian  |  Date: 1/1/1998  |  Author: Aucoin, Brent J.

Thomas Goode Jones, a white southern leader, was one of the few such leaders who called for moderation when radical racism swept through the South and the entire United States in the 1890s and early 1900s. He helped persuade delegates to the Alabama constitutional convention in 1901 to reject race-based appropriations for education. He was important in African American civil rights in the New South, although as governor he signed into law a bill that has been criticized as one that ...

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