One year prior to being elected as the 25th governor of Arkansas, Charles Hillman Brough (1876 – 1935), while serving as the chairman of the University Commission on the Southern Race Question, submitted his opinion regarding racial segregation in the Annual Report that he had written for that organization. Dr. Brough, who at the time was a professor of Economics and Sociology at the University of Arkansas, condemned the Jim Crow laws that had separated Whites from Blacks, believing that no good could ever spring from it. The column summarizes the hardships of Southern Black men in 1915 (average male life-expectancy was 35).
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Southern Race problems 1915C.H. Brough pdfracial integration suggested 1915status of Southern racial segregation 1915Charles Hillman Brough liberal democratCharles Hillman Brough on racial integration 1915University Commission on the Southern Race Question annual report 1915southern culture condemned 1915Jim Crow south 1915results of Jim Crow Laws1915 assessment of Jim Crow legislationseparate and unequal 1915
Southern Race problems 1915C.H. Brough pdfracial integration suggested 1915status of Southern racial segregation 1915Charles Hillman Brough liberal democratCharles Hillman Brough on racial integration 1915University Commission on the Southern Race Question annual report 1915southern culture condemned 1915Jim Crow south 1915results of Jim Crow Laws1915 assessment of Jim Crow legislationseparate and unequal 1915
