{"id":26054,"date":"2012-10-18T00:23:52","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T00:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=26054"},"modified":"2012-10-18T00:56:17","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T00:56:17","slug":"millionaire-to-use-money-against-racial-inetermingling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=26054","title":{"rendered":"Millionaire to Use Money Against Racial Inetermingling"},"content":{"rendered":"

Millionaire to Use Money Against Racial Inetermingling<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Natchez News and Courier
\nNatchez, Mississippi
\n1949-11-13<\/p>\n

James McLean<\/strong><\/p>\n

NATCHEZ. Miss<\/a>, Nov. 12. Bald, rugged George W. Armstrong<\/a>\u00a0is determined to make his money talk loud and long against “racial mongrelization”.<\/p>\n

That’s a term the 84-year-old millionaire uses often in voicing opposition to intermingling of Jews, Gentiles and negroes In the same schools.<\/p>\n

Armstrong, who says he isn’t sure how much money he has, splashed into headlines when money-poor Jefferson Military College<\/a> spurned his $50,000,000 endowment offer (in mineral land rights) to teach “superiority of the Anglo-Saxon and Latin American races”.<\/p>\n

Later he dismissed the furore his offer created as a “tempest in a teapot”, said the value of his holdings had been exaggerated, and that although he approves the doctrine of white supremacy, he had not made a formal request that the college teach it…<\/p>\n

…Governor J. Strom Thurmond<\/a>, the states rights candidate, repudiated his support, he explained. “I’m not anti-Semitic,” Armstrong said, in his slow, lip-pursing way of talking. “We’ve got some awfully good Jews here in Natchez and I like them.” But he assails Jews, whites and negroes going to school together because it “mongrelizes the American race.”…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Millionaire to Use Money Against Racial Inetermingling The Natchez News and Courier Natchez, Mississippi 1949-11-13 James McLean NATCHEZ. Miss, Nov. 12. Bald, rugged George W. Armstrong\u00a0is determined to make his money talk loud and long against “racial mongrelization”. That’s a term the 84-year-old millionaire uses often in voicing opposition to intermingling of Jews, Gentiles and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,1459,26,394,20],"tags":[12511,12516,12510,11516,12509],"class_list":["post-26054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-mississippi","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-george-w-armstrong","tag-george-washington-armstrong","tag-james-mclean","tag-natchez","tag-natchez-news-and-courier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}