"While some 500 Negroes listened with sympathetic interest in the public galleries, Senator Bilbo of Mississippi today urged Federal aid for colonization of large numbers of that race in Liberia."
— 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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New York Times, April 25, 1939. Time ran an article on the speech, but its tone was more mocking than condemning. The only other mention in the white press came in a small New York Times piece, buried on page 16. Again, Bilbo’s black repatriation proposal drew little attention and even less condemnation.