Earnest Sevier Cox

Earnest Sevier Cox
Self-published promotional photo of Cox from 1930
BornJanuary 24, 1880
Blount County, Tennessee, US
DiedApril 26, 1966(1966-04-26) (aged 86)
Richmond, Virginia, US
Resting placeArlington National Cemetery
Education
OccupationAuthor

Earnest Sevier Cox (January 24, 1880 – April 26, 1966) was an American Methodist preacher, political activist and white supremacist. He is best known for his political campaigning for stricter segregation between blacks and whites in the United States through tougher anti-miscegenation laws, for his advocacy for "repatriation" of African Americans to Africa, and for his book White America.[1][2] He is also noted for having mediated collaboration between white southern segregationists and African American separatist organizations such as UNIA and the Peace Movement of Ethiopia to advocate for repatriation legislation, and for having been a personal friend of black racial separatist Marcus Garvey.[3][4]

  1. ^ Jackson, John P., and Andrew S. Winston, 2009. "The Last Repatriationist: The Career of Earnest Sevier Cox" Archived October 25, 2014, at the Wayback Machine in Paul Farber and Hamilton Cravens (eds), Race and Science: Scientific Challenges to Racism in Modern America, Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, pp 58–180.
  2. ^ "Earnest Sevier Cox (1880–1966)", Encyclopedia of Virginia, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.
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