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[[Franklin Roosevelt]] appointed [[Ku Klux Klan]] Grand Wizard [[Hugo Black]] to the Supreme Court. FDR excluded the 4-time gold medalist [[Jesse Owens]] from the customary [[White House]] visit by [[Olympics|Olympic]] athletes. As Jesse Owens later explained:<ref>https://fee.org/articles/hitler-didn-t-snub-me-it-was-our-president/</ref>
[[Franklin Roosevelt]] appointed [[Ku Klux Klan]] Grand Wizard [[Hugo Black]] to the Supreme Court. FDR excluded the 4-time gold medalist [[Jesse Owens]] from the customary [[White House]] visit by [[Olympics|Olympic]] athletes. As Jesse Owens later explained:<ref>https://fee.org/articles/hitler-didn-t-snub-me-it-was-our-president/</ref>
{{cquote|[[Hitler]] didn’t snub me; it was our president [[FDR]] who snubbed me. The president didn’t even send a telegram.}}
{{Quotebox|[[Hitler]] didn’t snub me; it was our president [[FDR]] who snubbed me. The president didn’t even send a telegram.}}
[[Harry Truman]], a Ku Klux Klan sympathizer, wrote a letter to his own wife condemning blacks and Orientals.<ref>https://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/trumanpapers/fbpa/index.php?documentid=HST-FBP_1-21_01&documentVersion=both</ref>
[[Harry Truman]], a Ku Klux Klan sympathizer, wrote a letter to his own wife condemning blacks and Orientals.<ref>https://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/trumanpapers/fbpa/index.php?documentid=HST-FBP_1-21_01&documentVersion=both</ref>