Mulatto a Curse
MULATTO A CURSE
Miscegenation Should Be Capital Offense
Judge Norwood, Ex-Senator and Congressman, says Present Generation of the negro is Retrograding to Savage State.
MULATTO A CURSE
Miscegenation Should Be Capital Offense
Judge Norwood, Ex-Senator and Congressman, says Present Generation of the negro is Retrograding to Savage State.
(By the Associated Press.)
Savannah, Ga., Dec. 31, 1907
Thomas M. Norwood, former Congressman and ex-United States Senator from Georgia, delivered a remarkable address upon the race question today, the occasion being his retirement from the bench of the city court, a place he had occupied for twelve years.
The judge said that after investigation and long contact with the negro as a defendant in his court, he had reached the conclusion that the blacks are incapable of receiving and using more than teh rudiments of an education.
The negro, as a slave, was cared for by the White man, he said, but the present generation is retrograding to the status of the savage and his rule by force.
This is shown by the constant disregard of laws, repeated resistance of arrest and shooting down of White men who attempt to control them. The mulatto is the curse of both the White and negro race in the South, said Judge Norwoord.
They stir the others to deeds of violence and create discord. Illicit miscegenation, he held, should be repressed by the most vigorous laws. It should be made a capital offense, the guilty (Negro) man hanged and the (White) woman sent to the penitentiary for life.
Source: The News & Observer, Wed. Jan. 1, 1908 Ed. 1, Page 5
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We encourage you to reflect on your own family narrative—did your ancestors play a pivotal role in these historical events? We invite you to become a part of our family curator team by sharing your family's history, whether it be through photos, videos, articles, or documents.
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