"This is a white man's country, with a white man's civilization and any dream on the part of the Negro race to share social and political equality will be shattered in the end."
— Lynching

January 1, 1970

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Theodore Bilbo's statement arguing that it would have been practically impossible to prevent Hartfield's lynching, as quoted in "Gov. Bilbo blames French reception and Negro Press. Admits it is practically impossible to prevent rapists' lynching". Jones County News. 8 July 1919.