"To defeat this measure, so help me God, I would be willing to speak every day of the year 1938."
— Theodore G. Bilbo

January 1, 1970

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Democratic Party (United States) politiciansMembers of the United States SenatePeople from MississippiWhite supremacistsGovernors of Mississippi
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In a speech opposing a Senate anti-lynching bill on January 21, 1938

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In a speech opposing a Senate anti-lynching bill on January 21, 1938