Negroes Oppose Appointment of Col. Meekins, Dec. 8, 1924

Negroes Oppose the Appointment of Meekins. . . Letter to Attorney General Written in Hot Terms—Calls Him a Demagogue

Raleigh, Dec. 6—White Republicans who favor somebody else as federal judge and not Colonel Isaac M. Meekins are disposed to think that the new assault of negro Republicans on the colonel may prove the irony of political fate in North Carolina.

A letter has come to the correspondent of tis paper which is being sent to the attorney general of the United States. It has taken the form of a petition from negroes in Salisbury, High Point, Greensboro, Winston-Salem, Durham and Wilmington against the appoint of Col Meekins, and some of the negroes who are presenting it are graduates of Amherst College, the President’s institution.

From the front page of the Concord Times, Dec. 8, 1924.

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