Rising Tide. Part 29

"blacks tried to be": Interview with John Wiley, October 22, 1993.

knives, razors, and pistols: History of Blacks in Greenville, 1863-1975; History of Blacks in Greenville, 1863-1975; Oral history of Daisy Green, 1975, MDAH; interview with Sylvia Jackson, February 20, 1993; interview with David Cober, February 22, 1993. Oral history of Daisy Green, 1975, MDAH; interview with Sylvia Jackson, February 20, 1993; interview with David Cober, February 22, 1993.

"pa.s.sion corner": Powdermaker, p. 8; interview with Frank Hall; also, Was.h.i.+ngton County the Pride of the Delta Was.h.i.+ngton County the Pride of the Delta.

In 1920 the city: "The Negro Common School, Mississippi," Crisis Crisis, December 1926, p. 91.

The teachers and facilities: Interview with Shelby Foote, March 9, 1994.

The city spent $17: "The Negro Common School, Mississippi," p. 91.

Greenville public schools: Interview with Leyser Holmes, March 2, 1993.

"I don't believe": Oral history of Daisy Green, 1975, p. 27.

"Our town has grown": LP to Lawrence McMeekin, PFP.

In addition, before settling: Interview with Maurice Sisson, October 22, 1993.

in 1923: Ezra Bowen, ed., This Fabulous Century, 1920-1930 This Fabulous Century, 1920-1930, pp. 105, 244.

"The ultimate development": Herbert Spencer, Social Statics Social Statics (New York: D. Appleton, 1864), p. 79. (New York: D. Appleton, 1864), p. 79.

"flapper": Ellis Hawley, The Great War and the Search for a Modern Order The Great War and the Search for a Modern Order, p. 112.

skirts touched the knee: Sullivan, Pre-War America Pre-War America, p. 337.

In 1919: Ronald Davis, ed., The Social and Political Life of the 1920s The Social and Political Life of the 1920s, p. 16.

"Many an American": Sullivan, The War Begins The War Begins, p. 182.

150,000 people: Kenneth Harrell, "The Ku Klux Klan in Louisiana, 1920-1930," Ph.D. thesis, p. 82.

"Government conscripted public opinion": Robert Murray, Red Scare: A Study in National Hysteria Red Scare: A Study in National Hysteria (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1955), p. 12. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1955), p. 12.

a nation of informers: Wade, p. 149.

"If this country": LP to d.i.c.kinson, May 22, 1916, PFP.

"at the close": LP to Bolton Smith, June 19, 1918, PFP.

in none of the cases: Walter White, A Man Called White A Man Called White, p. 48; Tindall, The Emergence of the New South The Emergence of the New South, pp. 152-154; O. A. Roberts, "The Elaine Race Riots of 1919," pp. 142-150.

"It is only a middling": Murray, pp. 67, 74.

"Free speech has been": Ibid.

"Silence the incendiary": Ibid.

"To h.e.l.l with": Sullivan, The Twenties The Twenties, p. 168.

the United States had two Communist parties: Murray, pp. 51-53.

"to maintain law and order": Ibid., p. 89.

"He...jumped off": Sullivan, The Twenties The Twenties, see pp. 156-180 pa.s.sim; Ralph Chaplin, The Centralia Conspiracy The Centralia Conspiracy, p. 66.

"Palmer, do not let": Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., The Crisis of the Old Order 1919-1933 The Crisis of the Old Order 1919-1933, p. 42.

Hoover had a card file: Murray, p. 193.

"I myself am an American": William Katz, The Invisible Empire The Invisible Empire, p. 27; Murray, p. 219.

"fancied and certainly far distant": LP to John Sharp Williams, July 11, 1919, and LP to Pat Harrison, August 4, 1919, both in PFP.

"all G.o.ds dead": F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise This Side of Paradise (New York: Scribners, 1920), p. 304. (New York: Scribners, 1920), p. 304.

"Dare to be Babbitt": Ronald Davis, p. 47.

"Why I Never Hire": Quoted in Ethan Morden, That Jazz That Jazz, p. 103.

"the most average": Bowen, p. 218.

nearly 25 million tickets: Katz, p. 87.

"The real big purpose": Wade, p. 138.

"It is like": Ibid., p. 124.

"I am a fraternalist": Wade, p. 140; Chalmers, David, Hooded Americanism Hooded Americanism, p. 25.

he signed a contract: Stanley Coben, Rebellion Against Victorianism Rebellion Against Victorianism, p. 140; see also Tindall, George, The Emergence of the New South The Emergence of the New South, p. 189.

"It is going to": Ibid., p. 191.

at least 3 million Americans: Ibid., p. 194.

It had 300,000 members: Harrell, "The Ku Klux Klan in Louisiana, 1920-1930," p. 66.

It seized control: Leonard Moore, "Historical Interpretations of the 1920s Klan," p. 352.

"The world broke": Quoted in Ronald Davis, p. 126.

CHAPTER 11.

One night four: History of Blacks in Greenville, 1863-1975 History of Blacks in Greenville, 1863-1975, pamphlet; also Irvin Mollison, "Negro Lawyers in Mississippi."

"Percy would almost": Interview with Gatewood Hamm, December 15, 1992; interview with Frank Hall, March 27, 1992.

"the inflammable, uneducated": Percy, LL LL, p. 228.

he called to his office: Percy, LL LL, p. 232.

"A Ku Klux orator": LP to Alfred Stone, February 27, 1922, PFP.

"Colonel Camp": No transcript of Camp's speech exists, but several newspaper reports, including the Vicksburg Herald Vicksburg Herald of March 2, 1922, and the of March 2, 1922, and the Houston Chronicle Houston Chronicle of March 19, 1922, paraphrased it. Percy also recounted portions of it in his speech and in letters he wrote in subsequent weeks, especially to H. H. Garwood, March 10, 1922, in PFP. So did the of March 19, 1922, paraphrased it. Percy also recounted portions of it in his speech and in letters he wrote in subsequent weeks, especially to H. H. Garwood, March 10, 1922, in PFP. So did the GD-T, LL GD-T, LL, pp. 232-233, and Sallis, "The Life and Times of LeRoy Percy," pp. 150-154.

"Percy!": Sallis, p. 154.

"this eminent orator": Houston Chronicle Houston Chronicle, March 19, 1922.

"Be it resolved": Ibid.

"If we had Mr. Percy": E. M. Weddington et al. to LP, March 4, 1992, PFP.

"much stronger effect": For example, see B. McGee to LP, March 2, 1922; R. E. Montgomery to LP, March 9, 1922; William McGinley to LP, June 2, 1922; R. L. Tullis to LP, August 25, 1922; LP to Mattoon, Illinois, Knights of Columbus, August 23, 1922, all in PFP.

he contacted three newspaper: LP to Authors' Clipping Bureau, LP to Albert Romeike & Co., LP to Henry Romeike, Inc., all on March 7, 1922, PFP.

"The eagerness with which": LP to Miss A. D. Jenkins, July 21, 1922.

the night after being humiliated: LP to A. P. Wilkey, January 20, 1923.

"To all Flag": Leland Enterprise Leland Enterprise, March 18, 1922, PFP.

The town epitomized: Schott, "John M. Parker of Louisiana," p. 423.

more lynchings had occurred: William Hair, The Kingfish and His Realm The Kingfish and His Realm, pp. 66, 130.

On August 24, 1992: Accounts of the Bastrop Klan come from Schott, "John M. Parker of Louisiana," esp. pp. 423-443; John Rogers, The Murders of Mer Rouge The Murders of Mer Rouge; Baker, The Percys of Mississippi The Percys of Mississippi, pp. 99-111; and NOT-P NOT-P pa.s.sim from September 1922 to January 1923. pa.s.sim from September 1922 to January 1923.

"Louisiana has issued": NOT-P NOT-P, April 29, 1922; NOI NOI, May 2, 1922.

"a fight to the finish": NOT-P NOT-P, October 31, 1922; Schott, "John M. Parker of Louisiana," p. 436.

Justice Department investigators: Schott, "John M. Parker of Louisiana," p. 431.

the Louisiana Klan invited: Thomas Dabney, One Hundred Great Years One Hundred Great Years, pp. 415-422.

"You have been": Parker to LP, February 20, 1923, Parker Papers, Special Collections, Dupre Library, University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette.

"I am intensely uneasy": LP to d.i.c.kinson, May 14, 1923; see also LP to R. Purdy, May 14, 1923, PFP.

"Nothing that is founded": LP to Will McCoy, May 16, 1923.

"decade": Nancy McLean, Behind the Mask of Chivalry Behind the Mask of Chivalry (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), p. 17. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), p. 17.

"Senator Percy has never": GD-T GD-T, June 21, 1923.

"All agree to stay": Undated note in Percy's handwriting, PFP.

"The day of kings": See copy of speech at People's Theater, April 23, 1923, PFP.

"[A] letter from you": LP to Alfred Stone, July 6, 1923, PFP.

"Senator Percy has no": Alfred Stone, As to Senator Percy As to Senator Percy, pamphlet, PFP.

One night in a rainstorm: Percy, LL LL, p. 236; GD-T GD-T, May 14, 1923.

his father likely suspected: Will Percy, "The Fifth Autumn," ms. in PFP, particularly when Will reports that his mother warned his father not to speak of s.e.xuality.

"If anything happens": Percy, LL LL, p. 236.

"my personal injury": GD-T GD-T, May 14, 1923.

"friends among the Jews": GD-T GD-T, August 6, 1923.

Voter turnout: GD-T GD-T, August 8, 1923.

"A tremendous uproar": Percy, LL LL, pp. 238-241.

"Adah and Charlie": Ibid.

"I mourn the fact": William Howard Taft to LP, August 30, 1923, PFP.

"You can scarcely understand": LP to William Howard Taft, September 25, 1923.

"Biological laws show": Katz, The Invisible Empire The Invisible Empire, p. 87.

"the Klan virus": LP to d.i.c.kinson, May 14, 1923, PFP.

it elected the mayors: Wade, The Fiery Cross The Fiery Cross, p. 196.

the convention erupted in tumult: LP to WAP, June 16, 1924, PFP.

"mak[ing] it more difficult": LP to d.i.c.kinson, June 17, 1924, PFP.

Pattangall himself lost: Mordden, That Jazz That Jazz, p. 64.

"I really believe": Lindsey to LP, April 25, 1925, PFP.

David Stephenson: John Braeman, Robert Bremner, and David Brody, eds., Change and Continuity in Twentieth Century America: The Twenties Change and Continuity in Twentieth Century America: The Twenties (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1968), pp. 240-41. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1968), pp. 240-41.