At the same time, many white citizens moved from town out to farms to avoid the occupying troops.
Threats then emerged from groups of white and black citizens.
Most citizens, black and white, believe that quotas are un-American.
Now it has become the first major city to be abandoned by its white citizens and to pioneer black political self-rule.
White's sister said that he wanted all along simply to pass as a white citizen.
Like white citizens, long blacks were not considered as Hondurans.
He was accused of organizing blacks to set fire to Charleston and to kill white citizens.
African Americans complained that the police did not respond to their calls as quickly as to those of white citizens.
Originally under the Constitution, only white male citizens over the age of 21 were eligible to vote.
The move was opposed by some of the city's white citizens.