How Did President Coolidge Promote Equality

During this massive flood, most white communities were saved. On the other hand, communities were black people lived were flooded to reduce the pressure on the levees. To make matters worse thousands of evacuated blacks were forced to work for their rations under the gun of the National Guard and area planters, leading to several mass beatings, lynching’s, and rapes. The National Guard did indeed come, not to provide relief but to criminalize the victims. At all levels, whether it be local, state, national or federal the government did its best covered up the death toll and any evidence of what really caused it. If President Coolidge was so into promoting equality, why didn’t he do anything when all of this was happening? This isn’t even the last
Johnson was well informed of theories such as that of “yellow peril”. This theory had somehow rationalized discrimination against west coast Asians for decades. This two-party measure further restricted immigration from southern and eastern Europe, severely restricted African immigrants, and banned the immigrations of Arabs and Asians. “America must be kept American,” is what President Coolidge had to say. It’s also not an exaggeration to say that Coolidge had a lot to do with the great depression. He just sat back and let Mellon reduce the taxes in the nation five times during his presidency! This caused the nations funds to decrease. Imagine in one year over ten percent of federal money was gone! It’s no wonder that Coolidge didn’t want to run for another term. The Great depression could have been prevented or at least had a lesser impact on the nation had measures been put into place to stop something like that