Matt Barton

“The Negro is among us and the race should be encouraged to progress, but that path should never lead to social mingling,” warned the Indianapolis Star in 1921.”
― Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

“Jim Crow was a bipartisan crime.”
― Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

“His mother said she had to use the wagon that afternoon, but she’d drop him off wherever he was going. “I’m going to the Red Key,” he said. “Where?” “The Red Key,” he shouted. “Over on College and Fifty-fourth Street.” “The tavern?” “It’s a bar.” “You’re going there in the afternoon?” “I’m meeting a guy.” “Are you sure they’re open—in the afternoon?” Sonny took a deep breath. “I’m sure.”
― Dan Wakefield, Going All the Way: A Novel

“The preacher said Madge’s spirit belonged to Irvington, and Irvington must be there for her memory: “Let us not forget that in coming here today we have not fulfilled our obligations of friendship,” he said. In the days, weeks, and years ahead, the family “will need us as never before”
― Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them