Daniel Schenk, Democratic leader, on the 1898 election in North Carolina:
It will be the meanest, vilest, dirtiest campaign since 1876. The slogan of the Democratic Party from the mountains to the sea will be but one word... Nigger.
Wilmington "rioters" in front of the Daily Record offices
The Men who took down their shotguns and cleared the Negroes out of office yesterday were not a mob of plug uglies. They were men of property, intelligence, culture ... clergyman, lawyers, bankers, merchants. They are not a mob, they are revolutionists asserting a sacred privilege and a right.
The Dawes Act, 1887.
Indian tribal land is divided among individuals; remainder is allotted
To each head of a family, one-quarter of a section; To each single person over eighteen years of age, one-eighth of a section ; To each orphan child under eighteen years of age, one-eighth of a section; and To each other single person under eighteen years now living, or who may be born prior to the date of the order of the President directing an allotment of the lands embraced in any reservation, one-sixteenth of a section
Melting Pot Ceremony at Ford Motor Company
Griffith, Birth of a Nation