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Two years before Helms's 2003 retirement from the Senate, David Broder of The Washington Post wrote a column headlined "Jesse Helms, White Racist", analyzing Helms's public record on race, a record he felt many other reporters were side-stepping.
Perhaps realizing he had overreached in his overt displays of racism, Helms dialed back his attacks on blacks and minorities, although he still stirred up fear of voter registration drives associated with Jesse Jackson's presidential campaign.
5 Ιουλ 2008 · WASHINGTON — Jesse Helms, the former U.S. senator from North Carolina who for half a century infuriated liberals with his race-baiting campaign tactics and presidents of both parties with his...
In his earliest correspondence, Jesse Helms rejected the doctrine of white supremacy and as manager of WRAL-TV he hired both minorities and women and even proposed to set up a department at WRAL for the sole purpose of training minority candidates for significant career opportunities.
13 Αυγ 2020 · The Helms Amendment, named for the self-proclaimed bigot, Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.), prohibits U.S. aid for pregnancy terminations. It’s time to repeal it.
7 Ιουλ 2008 · Senator Jesse Helms died Friday at age 86. Richard Prince takes a look at the obituaries and other discussions surrounding the conservative politician's death, many of which have used...
4 Ιουλ 2008 · Gantt called Helms' tactics racially divisive and asked North Carolina voters to decide for themselves whether Helms was a racist.