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Author: Madden, Martin B.
Title: 1915 congressional speech defending inter-racial marriage in the Jack Johnson era
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Date Published: 1915
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For The Protection of Negro Womanhood, Speech in the House of Representatives of Hon. Martin B. Madden of Illinois. (Washington, D.C., Jan. 11, 1915) 2pp. Original wrappers.
Madden was a white Republican Congressman from Chicago. Elected in 1905, he served for 23 years, becoming powerful chairman of the Appropriations Committee. This impassioned speech, remarkable for its time, opposed legislation to outlaw inter-racial marriage (a racist reaction to boxer Jack Johnson's marriages to white women), which, said Madden, "would leave many young girls at the mercy of brutes willing to take advantage of their virtue and then desert them to a life of shame." No "white man should be allowed to cohabit with a black woman not his wife without being compelled by the law to marry her or provide for the care of their children."
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