Rising Tide. Part 39

"We rescued Main Street": NOS NOS, September 7, 1927.

he wrote identical: See, for example, Hoover to Benjamin Marsh, June 15, 1927; letters to newspapers went out over a period of time; a large number were sent out on July 12, 1927, copies in HHPL.

"I have thought": Hoover to the editor of the Journal-Press Journal-Press, Blaine, Was.h.i.+ngton, July 12, 1927, HHPL.

"Bert's just resting": Quoted in Richard Norton Smith, An Uncommon Man An Uncommon Man, p. 17.

"We challenge the statement": MC-A MC-A, June 22, 1927.

"There is, in fact": W. H. Negus to R. E. Kennington, May 24, 1927, HHPL.

he convinced the St. Louis: Hoover to Crosby, May 31, 1927, HHPL.

he also had the Red Cross: Hoover to R. E. Kennington, May 24, 1927, HHPL.

they convinced Percy's: Stone to Hoover, September 23, 1927, HHPL.

He said the Mississippi: MC-A MC-A, June 23, 1927.

months after his a.s.sertion: Memo from John Cremer to H. Stuart Crawford, secretary to Coolidge, September 17, 1927, RCP.

"It has been a source": Crosby to Hoover, July 2, 1927, HHPL.

"I have the feeling": Hoover to Butler, July 5, 1927, HHPL.

the Mississippi corporation: Ibid. See also "Report of Mississippi Rehabilitation Corporation," 1929, RCP.

CHAPTER T THIRTY-TWO.

"to pull out": Carol Fennelly, "History of the National Red Cross," unpublished ms., p. 6, American Red Cross Archives, Wash., D.C.

Red Cross headquarters: Ibid., p. 33.

"unwise to become": DeWitt Smith to Fieser, June 17, 1927; Fieser to DeWitt Smith, June 20, 1927, RCP.

"he had given his": Robert Russa Moton, Finding a Way Out Finding a Way Out, p. 12.

"with all the deference": Ibid., p. 128.

"Negroes have always met": Robert Russa Moton, What the Negro Thinks What the Negro Thinks, pp. 1, 9, 67.

"the wholesome advice": Quoted in Moton, Finding a Way Out Finding a Way Out, p. 265.

"Whatever might be said": William Hughes and Frederick Patterson, eds., Robert Russa Moton Robert Russa Moton, p. 182.

"be pleased to see": George Akerson to Moton, September 21, 1926, RRMP.

"to save an embarra.s.sing": C. C. Spaulding to Moton, November 26, 1928, RRMP.

Moton promised its leader: Moton to Booze, February 20, 1930, RRMP.

"the proper approach": Booze to Moton, July 2, 1929, RRMP.

"Our train took six": Undated draft report of first Colored Advisory Commission, RRMP.

One investigator separately sent: Sidney Redmond to John Sargent, July 5, 1927, Justice Department records, peonage file, NA RG 60.

"You may feel free": Moton to Hoover, June 14, 1927, RCP.

"the truth must": Barnett to Hoover, June 14, 1927, HHPL.

"constructive": Barnett to Albion Holsey, June 17, 1927, RRMP.

"The [Chicago] Defender demands": Barnett to Moton, June 18, 1927; Barnett to Albion Holsey, June 17, 1927; both in RRMP.

"something substantial": Ibid.

"I am of the opinion": Clark to Moton, June 14, 1927, RRMP.

"It is my frank": Moton to Lester Walton, July 13, 1927, RRMP.

"We were face to face": Draft report by Moton, June 13, 1927, RRMP.

Moton had prepared only three: Jesse Thomas to Holsey, July 9, 1927; Holsey to Thomas, July 23, 1927; both in RRMP.

he also asked about rehabilitation: For background on this meeting, see "Memorandum of Conference Between Officials of the Red Cross and Members of Colored Commission," July 8, 1927, RCP. See also Hoover to Crosby, July 8 and 12, 1927, HHPL; Moton to Clark, July 2, 1927, and Holsey to Thomas, July 23, 1927, both in RRMP.

"Underground Forces": Consolidated Press story, July 23, 1927, as it appears in MC-A MC-A.

"background of bankrupt economics": Memorandum, typed, with changes in Hoover's handwriting, July 9, 1927, HHPL.

Hoover estimated: Ibid.; also note in the memorandum that Hoover used a figure of $1-$2 million, with each million dollars enough for 1,500 families. In a letter to Crosby on July 12 (copy in HHPL) he called for initial capital of $4.5 million.

"If it were possible": Memorandum, July 9, 1927, HHPL.

Now many of the same men: Consolidated Press story, July 23, 1927, as it appears in MC-A MC-A; see also NYT NYT, August 4, 5, and 16, 1927.

"I am not at liberty": Fieser to Hoover, August 27, 1927, HHPL.

"newspaper publicity": Ibid.

Moton never learned: There is no reference to Fieser's position in any Moton correspondence either with Hoover, with any member of the Colored Advisory Commission, or with his a.s.sistants.

"A great many people": Arthur Kellogg to Hoover, July 13, 1927, HHPL.

CHAPTER T THIRTY-THREE.

Only 20 to 25 percent: LP to L. A. Downs, September 10, 1927; WAP to LP, February 9, 1928, both in PFP.

tons of yeast: July 16, 1927, report, U.S. Public Health Service, NA, RG 90, Mississippi Flood, box 3, p. 9; Wesselius to Baker and Smith, July 23, 1927; Drs. Hugh c.u.mming and William DeKleine to local health officials, August 12, 1927; DeKleine to DeWitt Smith, September 23, 1927; all letters in RCP, boxes 735 and 740.

"[A]ny attempt to remove": July 16, 1927, report, U.S. Public Health Service, NA, RG 90, Mississippi Flood, box 3, p. 34.

the black camp closed: Camps for blacks in Vicksburg closed July 1; the white camp stayed open until August 22. See Crisis Crisis, February 1928, p. 42.

county Red Cross chairmen: Moton to Robert Bondy, June 18, 1927, RCP; draft report of Colored Advisory Commission, December 1927, RRMP; for a specific example, see flood sufferer to Hoover, July 25, 1927, HHPL.

official Red Cross policy: See June 26, 1927, memo signed by Hoover and Fieser, which states, "Cabins to only be erected upon properties of resident owners.h.i.+p," RCP.

"We have grave suspicions": Crisis Crisis, November 1927.

"Next month we shall": Ibid.

"The Crisis had a white": Barnett to Moton, November 19, 1927, RRMP.

"Suggest that Red Cross": Moton to Hoover, November 16, 1927, RCP, box 734.

"the colored complex": See Moton to Hoover, October 1, 1927, RRMP; Hoover, DeWitt Smith to Robert Thrush, October 13, 1927, RCP; Hoover to Smith, November 3, 1927, RCP; November 7, 1927, memo by Smith, RCP, box 734.

"frequently nullified": Unt.i.tled summary addressed to Hoover, signed by Moton, December 12, 1927, RRMP; another copy in RCP.

"I think we beat": Barnett to Thomas, January 6, 1928, CBP.

"vigorously investigated": Hoover to Moton, December 17, 1927, HHPL.

"I felt Secretary Hoover": Barnett to Moton, January 6, 1928 (incorrectly dated), CBP.

"The presence of": Moton to Hoover, January 4, 1928, RRMP.

"laid Dr. Moton out": Fieser to DeWitt Smith, December 19, 1927, RCP.

"another element": Hoover to Fieser, December 22, 1927, RCP.

"I have received": Moton to Hoover, January 9 and 12, 1928; Hoover to Moton, January 13, 1928; both in HHPL.

"I feel very strongly": Barnett to Fieser, March 20, 1928, CBP.

"Neither Dr. Moton nor I": Clark to Fieser, January 11, 1928, RCP.

"outline the plan": William Schieffelin to Hoover, January 9, 1928, HHPL.

"I feel it would": Hoover to Schieffelin, January 12, 1928, HHPL.

"a great experiment": Hoover to Rosenwald, February 13, 1928, HHPL.

"Mr. Rosenwald's reaction": Edwin Embree to Hoover, March 1, 1928, HHPL.

"A word from you": Moton to Hoover, January 18, 1928, RRMP.

"could finance the scheme": Moton to Hoover, February 27, 1928, RRMP.

Hoover sent him a copy: Hoover to Moton, March 11, 1928, HHPL.

"You are the kind": Moton to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., June 16, 1928, RRMP.

"plan to deadlock": NYT NYT, March 31, 1928.

"popularity grows by contact": LP to Pat Harrison, August 30, 1928, PFP.

"I don't believe": LP to Will Stimmel, September 15, 1927, PFP.

"No man in public life": LP to "Willie," probably his nephew William Armstrong Percy, June 30, 1928, PFP.

people acting for Hoover: See, for example, correspondence between Fletcher Chenault, Arkansas Gazette Arkansas Gazette reporter, and Akerson, from October 6, 1927, to May 6, 1928, in HHPL, which detail Chenault's spying for the Hoover campaign and manipulating his stories to help Hoover. After the election Chenault asked Akerson for a job. Regarding illegal payoffs, especially in the South, see Donald Lisio, reporter, and Akerson, from October 6, 1927, to May 6, 1928, in HHPL, which detail Chenault's spying for the Hoover campaign and manipulating his stories to help Hoover. After the election Chenault asked Akerson for a job. Regarding illegal payoffs, especially in the South, see Donald Lisio, Hoover, Blacks and Lily-Whites Hoover, Blacks and Lily-Whites, pa.s.sim.

"Would it be possible": Akerson to Harvey Couch, March 22, 1928; see also Neale to Couch, February 22, 1928, both in Akerson Papers, HHPL.

a campaign aide: Barnett to Akerson, January 17, 1928, CBP.

"Both Secretary Hoover": Akerson to Barnett, May 15, 1928, HHPL.

"just what you": J. M. Lee to Moton, February 11, 1928, RRMP.

"regarding Mr. Hoover": Bernie mentions to Moton, August 29, 1928, RRMP.

Akerson instructed Moton: Holsey to Akerson, June 6, 1928, HHPL.

"Mr. J. C. Mitch.e.l.l": Akerson to Moton, May 1, 1928, HHPL.

"and find out exactly": Akerson to Moton, March 27, 1928, HHPL.

"a statement to": Akerson to Moton, September 24, 1928, HHPL.