Democrats and Republicans: In Their Own Words (Memento vom 12. August 2007 im Internet Archive; PDF) “According to prominent Democrat leader A. W. Terrell of Texas, the 15th Amendment was what he called 'the political blunder of the century.' Democratic U. S. Rep. Bourke Cockran of New York and Democratic U.S. Senator John Tyler Morgan of Alabama agreed with Terrell and were among the Democrats seeking a repeal of the 15th Amendment.”
Senator John Tyler Morgan and the Genesis of Jim Crow Ideology, 1889-1891 (Memento vom 15. Juli 2006 im Internet Archive). Alabama Review, Apr 2004. “His congressional speeches and published writings demonstrate the central role that Morgan played in the drama of racial politics on Capitol Hill and in the national press from 1889 to 1891. More importantly, they reveal his leadership in forging the ideology of white supremacy that dominated American race relations from the 1890s to the 1960s. Indeed, Morgan emerged as the most prominent and notorious racist ideologue of his day, a man who, as much as any other individual, set the tone for the coming Jim Crow era.”
