"Last week, in the Senate, Theodore Bilbo finally cut loose with his first unprovoked outburst of rabble rousing... Hardly a newspaper reported it."
— 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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Newsweek, June 6, 1938. While the article described Bilbo’s proposal to return blacks to Africa in unflattering terms, it ignored important segments of the speech, particularly Bilbo’s praise of German racial theories. Moreover, Bilbo’s plan received precious little attention elsewhere in the white press.