“They kept on hollering, and I simply had to put my foot down. I said, 'I'm the governor and I say the ignorant in this state have to learn, blacks as well as whites.”

— Huey Long

And they learned.
Huey Long on conservative resistance to illiteracy programs for Negroes (Williams p. 706)

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