Vol. 70/No. 6
February 13, 2006
Letters
Sundown Towns
Your review of the book Sundown Towns in the February 6 issue brought back some memories of living near Grants Pass, Oregon, in the early 1970s. The Black population of Josephine County at that time was less than 10. I learned that Grants Pass had officially been a Sundown Town until the 1920s. The local paper, the Grants Pass Daily Courier, even in the ’70s, had a setting sun as its logo. (Don’t let the sun set on you here). It was also not until the 1920s, when the Ku Klux Klan lost control of the state legislature, that Blacks were allowed to own majority control of property and businesses. I’m happy to see this history, on a national scale, accessible in book form.
Vern Cope
West Mifflin, Pennsylvania
‘Militant’ gets around
We have sent out your article “La Gaceta takes up fight against racism in Cuba” to the “Solidarity with Cuba” e-mail list sponsored by the Mexican Movement in Solidarity with Cuba. Obviously credit was given to the Militant. Some 6,000 people receive this mailing, most of them in Mexico, plus several hundred others in Latin America. Thank you.
Pedro Gellert
Mexico
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