@SeeDaneRunAgain 1/2His story is even more interesting. His first owner was his own father; his second, his half brother. He was part of the state convention from South Carolina that voted to ratify the 14th amdt. The house he bought after the war was is late slavery-owning father.
@SeeDaneRunAgain 2/2 He became a federal customs inspector after retiring from congress but lost his job before he died when Woodrow Wilson fired virtually every black civil servant in the federal government because, racist that he was, he didn’t believe Blacks should be supervising whites
@SeeDaneRunAgain 3/x One more twist to Smalls’ story. Woodrow Wilson, who had Smalls fired, was a college classmate of Thomas Dixon, Jr., author The Clansman trilogy novels D.W. Griffith adapted to make Birth of a Nation, which popularized the idea of blacks running amok during Reconstruction
@SeeDaneRunAgain 4/4 When the movie came out, Wilson helped to promote it by arranging a careening at the White House to which a number of high government officials were invited, including Supreme Court justices.
@SeeDaneRunAgain Screening not careening. Damn spellcheck
