From the letters of Hatton W. Sumners
These letters are the type of letters that normally would be destroyed as to hide the evidencee. But when Sumners retired he was so proud of these letters and others like them he donated them all. These the type of letters that sons and daughters burn when a parent dies, but Sumners never married and had no children.
In the letters of 1944 show that Sumners' theorizing about the U.S. Constitution was about getting non-Southerners to support his opposition to civil rights on constitutional grounds as opposed to Sumners' racial ideology.
Sumners opposed forming a dept. of education in the 1920s since it would threaten white supremacy. He explains that he thinks that the European immigrants are not capable of being good American citizens in one letter.
In the letters of 1944 show that Sumners' theorizing about the U.S. Constitution was about getting non-Southerners to support his opposition to civil rights on constitutional grounds as opposed to Sumners' racial ideology.
Sumners opposed forming a dept. of education in the 1920s since it would threaten white supremacy. He explains that he thinks that the European immigrants are not capable of being good American citizens in one letter.