"Put him in a black skin and let him live the rest of his life in America.”
16 year old African-American girl in a (winning) single sentence essay submitted as an entry in a spring 1944 Columbus, Ohio public school district essay contest with the topic "What to do with Hitler after the War?”.
Caste by Isabel Wilkerson, page 164ish, at the end of the last chapter in Part Three.
“What to do with Hitler”: Louis Adamic, A Nation of Nations (New York: Harper, 1945), p. 201.
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