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On 23 September 02010 with 6 comments

U.S. Senate: Senate Considers Banning Dial Phones
In 1930, Virginia's own Sen. Carter Glass introduced a resolution opposing dial telephones in congress, complaining that it was too much work to dial numbers. He also once said of the importance of disenfranchising black voters: "Discrimination! Why that is exactly what we propose. To remove every negro voter who can be gotten rid of, legally, without materially impairing the numerical strength of the white electorate."
(tags: virginia history technology telephone senate racism)

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Earlier, as a Virginia state senator, Glass described felony disenfranchisement laws, approvingly. as part of a plan to “eliminate the darkey as a political factor in this State in less than 5 years, so that in no single county…will there be the least concern felt for the complete supremacy of the white race in the affairs of government.” He’s long gone, but the laws remain.

Posted by KCinDC on 24 September 2010 @ 7pm

Jeez. That’s pretty bad.

Posted by Waldo Jaquith on 24 September 2010 @ 11pm

I pointed out to a longtime Lynchburg resident that Carter Glass was a racist and he almost had a stroke. FYI : Lynchburg’s E.C. Glass High is named after Edward Christian Glass NOT Carter Glass!

Posted by Martha on 26 September 2010 @ 2pm

Same family. They also owned the Lynchburg and Charlottesville newpapers into the 1990s, when they sold them to Media General.

Posted by Steve Vaughan on 27 September 2010 @ 10am

Whoops, my bad. They Glasses sold the papers before that to the Worrells who then sold them to Media General.

Posted by Steve Vaughan on 27 September 2010 @ 12pm

Same family…two completely different people!

Posted by Martha on 27 September 2010 @ 4pm

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