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The Gary American
Gary, Lake County, Indiana
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In Okolona, Mississippi, Sen. Theodore G. Bilbo, campaigning for U.S. Senate reelection, called for the atomic bombing and extermination of leaders of the Mississippi Progressive Voters, a group of Black political activists challenging voting barriers, while decrying socialism, communism, and racial mixing as threats to white civilization.
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OKOLONA, Miss.--(ANP)
Sen. Theodore G. Bilbo, speaking here last week in his campaign for reelection to the United States senate, said that "the leader or leaders of the Mississippi Progressive voters, composed of a number of politically ambitious Negroes who have challenged the right of anyone to prevent them from voting, should be atomically bombed and exterminated from the face of the earth." Presented as the crusading champion of southern customs and defender of the ideals of the South, Bilbo branded socialism, communism and mongrelization as the "greatest, most damnable, undermining forces of evil today that would destroy the white race, white civilization and the white man's scheme of government."
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Okolona, Miss.
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Sen. Theodore G. Bilbo, in a campaign speech for reelection to the United States senate, stated that the leader or leaders of the Mississippi Progressive voters, composed of politically ambitious Negroes challenging voting restrictions, should be atomically bombed and exterminated. He presented himself as a champion of southern customs and defender of southern ideals, branding socialism, communism, and mongrelization as undermining forces that would destroy the white race, white civilization, and the white man's government.