[JimRed]

Among the participants scheduled to testify in consecutive five minute blocks throughout the day were multiple representatives from the National Association for the Advancement of (Liberal) Colored People...

Let me guess; NAA(L)CP objects to coal mining because very few blacks are empolyed as miners?

[hal ogen]

I believe their “reasoning” likely was that the coal dust made the caucasian miners look like their were wearing “black face” and therefore were “disrespectful”...so obvious.