Talk:Greenville, Texas

message: I grew up in and around Greenville in the 1940's and 1950's, moving away in 1965. Even though the sign was always there, I never knew anyone who thought it to be a racial slur. The "whitest people" idea was taken from an old southern slogan - "that's mighty white of you." The context meaning nice, not white as in the caucasian race.
Some locals were disturbed that the sign was taken down. In the late 1960's the slogan was changed to the Blackest Land, the Nicest People. Small signs were placed at the city limit markers on Interstate 30, but it never caught on, and was eventually dropped altogether.
A picture postcard of the sign in the 1930's is posted under Images.
LarryMack (talk) 19:43, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Famous Lee Street Sign 

message: Two men of Greenville bore this name. A father and a son, both were attorneys practicing law in Greenville. The father's name is on the plaque dedicated to those who brought the first railroad to Greenville in 1880. The son born in 1871 became President of the St. Louis Southwestern Railway in 1922 and served until his retirement in 1946. I've found the Carol Taylor Upthegrove article here http://carolctaylor.com/Upthegrove%20Family.pdf . And railroad references here http://www.oocities.org/thetropics/8199/d_upgrove.html and here http://www.ttarchive.com/Library/Articles/Cotton-Belt_80-Years-Progress.html . There is almost enough information for a biograpy in these links. --SSW9389 11:30, 24 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Daniel Upthegrove 

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message: This story from the Herald Banner, the newspaper from Greenville documents a tragic and dark moment for the city in 1908 where a teenage black man name Ted Smith was publicly executed by a mob of mostly white people after he was accused of raping a 16 year old white woman named Viola Delancey. they dragged him though parts of what is now downtown Greenville and burned him alive in what is now known as Washington Street. now it doesn't matter if he was innocent or guilty, all is known, is Greenville has a mostly white population and has had a racist history, especially with the "Whitest folks" sign. 
https://www.heraldbanner.com/news/the-day-greenville-murdered-ted-smith/article_8778209c-d076-11eb-baab-ab7c8fde8a83.html
this is a dark chapter in Greenville/Hunt County, Texas history and this is the first i have heard about it since i was born in 1985 and spent most of my life in Hunt County, Texas. Boutitbenza 69 9 (talk) 05:03, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  another dark racist chapter in Greenville's history, the public execution of Ted Smith by a mob in 1908 

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