To craft legal discrimination, the Third Reich studied the United States.
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« Rankin proposed a bill to prohibit
interracial marriage and opposed a bill to prohibit state use of the
poll tax, which southern states had used since the turn of the century to disenfranchise most blacks and many poor whites. He used his power to support segregation and deny federal benefits programs to African Americans. For instance, in 1944, following the
Port Chicago disaster, the
U.S. Navy asked Congress to authorize payments of $5,000 to each of the victims' families. But when Rankin learned most of the dead were black sailors, he insisted the amount be reduced to $2,000; Congress settled the amount at $3,000 per family.
[1]
He was the main House sponsor of the
G.I. Bill. Rankin insisted that its administration be decentralized, which led to continued discrimination against black veterans in the South and their virtual exclusion from one of the most important postwar programs to build social capital among United States residents. In the South, black veterans were excluded from loans, training and employment assistance.
[2] The
historically black colleges were underfunded and could accept only about half the men who wanted to enroll.
[2]
On the floor of the House, Rankin expressed racist views of
African Americans,
[3]Japanese Americans,
[4] and
Jews,
[5]accusing
Albert Einstein of being a
communist agitator.
[6] During World War II, Rankin supported a bill that would incarcerate all Japanese Americans in the US and its territories in what he called "concentration camps".
[7] He later helped to establish the
House Un-American Activities Committee which questioned the
Hollywood Ten screenwriters during the
McCarthy Era.
[8] He described an anti-lynching bill as "a bill to encourage Negroes to think they can rape our white women!" while shaking his fist at a gallery of mostly colored persons.
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