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===KKK senator Hugo Black supports the court reorganization proposal===
 
===KKK senator Hugo Black supports the court reorganization proposal===
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In addition to Bilbo, another Southern Democrat who ardently supported President Roosevelt's New Deal and particularly the court-packing plan was [[Hugo Black]] of [[Alabama]], a former member of the [[Ku Klux Klan]]. Although on racial issues "he was no Theodore Bilbo or Tom Heflin," Black's racism persisted into the 1930s, calling the Scottsboro boys "these Negro rapers."<ref>Wiecek, William M. (1971). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_History_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the/eaAivaq6zVAC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=theodore+bilbo+court+packing&pg=PA76&printsec=frontcover The History of the Supreme Court of the United States], p. 76. ''Google Books''. Retrieved June 5, 2023.</ref>
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Another Southern Democrat who ardently supported President Roosevelt's New Deal and particularly the court-packing plan was [[Hugo Black]] of [[Alabama]], a former member of the [[Ku Klux Klan]]. Although on racial issues "he was no Theodore Bilbo or Tom Heflin," Black's racism persisted into the 1930s, calling the Scottsboro boys "these Negro rapers."<ref>Wiecek, William M. (1971). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_History_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the/eaAivaq6zVAC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=theodore+bilbo+court+packing&pg=PA76&printsec=frontcover The History of the Supreme Court of the United States], p. 76. ''Google Books''. Retrieved June 5, 2023.</ref>
    
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