April 3, 1869:  White Government Wanted

Harper’s Weekly quoted an Indiana man who stated, “We believe the government was formed for white men, in the interest of white men, as well as we know it was created by white men.”

Cited by:  Robert L. Harris, et al, eds. African American History in the Press, 1851-1899. Vol I: 1851-1869 (Detroit: Gale, 1996).