...(sic!} understand what social equality really means ; but to the ignorant and brutal negro it signifies but one thing; the opportunity to enjoy equally with...men the privilege of cohabiting with white women." Of course, John Temple Graves makes it much stronger. Thousands of negroes have decided, he says, that...

...delicacy, because the teaching of equality means but one diing "to the ignorant and brutal young Negro" — "the opportunity to enjoy, equally with white men, the privilege of cohabiting with white women."50 Although there was considerable disagreement as to whether the "pure black" or the "mulatto"...

...and brutal young Negro," the novelist Thomas Nelson Page argued in 1904, social equality "signifies but one thing: the opportunity to enjoy, equally with...the privilege of cohabiting with white women." This presumed insight into black motives "will explain, in part, the universal and furious hostility of...

...except so far as it may come about by white men with colored women." (Along This Way, pp. SI*~3I3>) to explain some things which have not been understood...to even the least suggestion of social equality." (Page, of. cit., pp. 112-113.) 88 "Even the most liberal Whites in the community claim that the equality...

...ignorant negroes' hands." He added that "to the ignorant and brutal young negro, [equality] signifies but one thing: the opportunity to enjoy, equally with...men, the privilege of cohabiting with white women." A Georgia editor made the point more succinctly. "The floater in politics," he wrote, "makes the rapist...

...widerstand what social equality truly means; but to the ignorant and brutal young negro, it signifies but one thing: the opportunity to enjoy, equally with...men, the privilege of cohabiting with white women 303 Um zu verhindern, daß schwarze Männer aus Beziehungen zu weißen Frauen Rechtsansprüche ableiteten...

...political and civil rights which might connote in the mind of the "ignorant and brutal young Negro" "the opportunity to enjoy, equally with white men, the privilege of cohabiting with white women." Thus, interpreting the black man's political and civil agitation as simply pretexts for eventual aggression...

...understand what social equality truly means, but to the ignorant and hrutal young Negro, it signifies but one thing: the opportunity to enjoy, equally with...of the South understand: and if it were understood ahroad, it would serve to explain some things which have not been understood hitherto. lt will explain,...

...southern writer Thomas Nelson Page in 1 904, "but to the ignorant and brutal young Negro, it signifies but one thing: the opportunity to enjoy, equally with...white men, the privilege of cohabiting with white women."39 Therefore, southern white Americans generally opposed any intimation of social equality....