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→Filibustering anti-lynching legislation, advocating deportation of blacks
====Filibustering anti-lynching legislation, advocating deportation of blacks====
====Filibustering anti-lynching legislation, advocating deportation of blacks====
:{{main|Gavagan–Van Nuys–Wagner Act}}
In a 1938 filibuster against [[anti-lynching legislation]], the [[Wagner–Van Nuys Act]] introduced by Northern Democratic senators Robert F. Wagner and Frederick Van Nuys, Bilbo disparaged [[NAACP]] leader Walter F. White as a "flat-nosed Ethiopian" and said on the [[Senate]] floor that the bill would "open the floodgates of [[hell]] in [[the South]]" by encouraging [[black]] men to rape white women.<ref name=fleegler,p.9>"Theodore G. Bilbo and the Decline of Public Racism," p. 9.</ref> Although most Southern Democratic senators opposed anti-lynching legislation on veiled arguments without overt race-baiting, Bilbo notably employed demagogic propaganda.
In a 1938 filibuster against [[anti-lynching legislation]], the [[Wagner–Van Nuys Act]] introduced by Northern Democratic senators Robert F. Wagner and Frederick Van Nuys, Bilbo disparaged [[NAACP]] leader Walter F. White as a "flat-nosed Ethiopian" and said on the [[Senate]] floor that the bill would "open the floodgates of [[hell]] in [[the South]]" by encouraging [[black]] men to rape white women.<ref name=fleegler,p.9>"Theodore G. Bilbo and the Decline of Public Racism," p. 9.</ref> Although most Southern Democratic senators opposed anti-lynching legislation on veiled arguments without overt race-baiting, Bilbo notably employed demagogic propaganda.