“Reverse Freedom Rides”: Tricked by white supremacists with promises of work and housing, Black families were dropped in Cape Cod with nothing, an echo of Martha’s Vineyard migrant flights 60 years ago
of the previous summer, when Black and White volunteers rode buses through the South supporting desegregation.The plot was organized by white supremacist Citizens Councils in Arkansas, who bought radio ads and made flyers advertising the “opportunity” to African Americans.
Along with the new arrivals, local Hyannis officials received anonymous letters, according to the Times, saying things like, “Abe Lincoln sowed the seeds and now the North can reap the harvest,” and “We have put up with millions of n------ for 100 years, so why should you squawk?”It was a contrast to the Great Migration of the previous decades, during which White residents did everything they could to stop Black workers from leaving.
The welcome was not universal. When the Massachusetts governor asked for federal help, the Kennedy administration declined.JFK was tested by white supremacists. Here’s what he finally did about it.
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