Gradually the newspapers are revealing this close connection between Republicanism and the Klan in the North: in such States as Maine, New York, and Indiana the influence is profound.
-- Lucy Shelton Stewart, The Reward of Patriotism, 1930, p. 449.
YOUR source proclaims Republicanism to have a legacy of oozing hate, being the lackey of the KKK in northern states such as Maine, New York and Indiana. This disgrace is suppressed no longer. Finally, the Republican inability to capture Black votes is explained. Good catch!
According to the superintendent of Receiving Hospital in 1926, the institution did not have a policy for segregating black and white patients. But he admitted to shifting patients around whenever he received a great number of complaints from white patients, most of which came from northern whites.Say it ain't so!
Richard W. Thomas, Life for Us Is What We Make It: Building Black Community in Detroit, 1915–1945, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press (1992), p. 135
In June of 1925, Dr. Alex L. Turner bought a nice expensive brick house on the northwest side of Detroit in the all-white Grand River Avenue district. Like many other black professionals, Turner and his family saw this move as a long awaited opportunity to escape the congested living conditions of the black ghettoes. The Turner family had been in their new house only a few hours when they were forced to leave by a crowd of whites 5,000 strong, hooting and throwing stones at the house. White men, women, and children participated in this shameless demonstration until the Turners left under police guard. Even as the family were leaving, the white crowd heaped further abuse upon them by stoning their car, breaking the glass and slightly injuring Dr. Turner. He later agreed to sell the house to a group of whites.I'm sure the Turner's misunderstood the crowd's intentions.
Ibid., p. 136
As soon as the word got out that a black family had moved into the neighborhood, crowds of whites gathered around. Soon rocks and stones were hitting the house and breaking windows. Shots rang out from the house, and one white man was dead and another wounded. The police arrived and arrested all ten blacks in the house. At the police station, a white officer asked Dr. Sweet and Mrs. Sweet separately why they had moved into a white neighborhood where they were not wanted. Mrs. Sweet replied, "I think it is my perfect right to move where I please". The Sweets and the other occupants of the house were charged with murder.
Ibid., p. 138
Dang, the Sweets must have misunderstood the Detroit Welcoming Committee.
In March 1940, in a case representative of others, a black family succeeded in purchasing a home in Ferndale, a white suburb in northwest Detroit, but the family left after a Ku Klux Klan (KKK) group burned a ten-foot cross by their house.Must have been an anomoly.
Ibid., p. 142
At this stage, the racial conflict moved to a more volatile level. The night before the move-in, the KKK became involved, and 150 cheering whites burned a cross near the project. Before dawn the mob had swelled to 1,200, many of them openly armed. That morning, as the first black tenants arrived in trucks, lines of white pickets blocked their way. Tempers flared, and before long a riot broke out, with blacks and whites on opposite sides of the street throwing bricks at each other. Whites turned over the blacks' furniture vans. Police armed with tear gas and a riot car made frequent runs into the melee. Scores of people, mainly blacks, were injured by the police, who tended to side with the whites by arresting blacks.Nope, no anomoly.
Ibid., p. 146