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Black Leaders
51 Bundy, McDonald, 13-14, 103, 209-211; "From Poverty to Banker," Negro
Achievements, VI, 5, 45-47; Houston Informer, July 8, 1950; Kansas City Call, Feb.
2, 1940; Bardolph, Negro Vanguard, 201; Dallas Express, July 15, 1950; Texas
Writers' Project, Fort Worth, 20692, 22455, 22459; "Death Comes to the World's
Richest Negro," 68.
52 Bundy, McDonald, 13-15, 20-24, 81-90, 126; Houston Informer, July 8,
1950; Adams, Tall Black Texans, 151; Lewis, Day They Shook the Plum Tree, 82;
William ("Gooseneck Bill") McDonald Folder, Lewis Notes; Texas Writers' Project,
Fort Worth, 21907-21908, 22457
53. Texas Writers' Project, Fort Worth, 20692.
54. Fort Worth Star-Telegram, July 12, 1950; Kansas City Call, Feb. 2, 1940;
Texas Writers' Project, Fort Worth, 20692, 21907-21908, 22457-22458; Bundy,
McDonald, 39; Lewinson, Race, Class, and Party, 173.
55. Bundy, McDonald, 209-213; Kansas City Call, Feb. 2, 1940; Fort Worth
Press, July 5, 1950; Houston Informer, Oct. 18, 1930; July 15, 1950; Dallas Express,
July 15, 1950; Dallas Morning News, Sept. 18, 1949; Texas Writers' Project, Fort
Worth, 19285-19286; Arnett G. Lindsay, "The Negro in Banking," Journal of
Negro History, XIV (Apr., 1929), 183; Muraskin, Middle-Class Blacks, 141-143.
56. Kansas City Call, Feb 2, 1940; Texas Writers' Project, Fort Worth, 20690,
22455; Houston Informer, Jan. 29, 1927.
57. Houston Informer, Oct 18, 1930; Texas Writers' Project, Fort Worth,
19285-19286; Dallas Express, June 26, 1926, July 2, 1927.
58. Houston Informer, June 29, 1929, Oct. 18, 1930, July 8, 1950; Kansas City
Call, Feb. 2, 1940; according to "Ten Richest Negroes in America," 13, he also own-
ed land in Dallas and Houston; Texas Writers' Project, Fort Worth, 20689, 20691,
22455, 22457; Dallas Express, July 15, 1950; Negro Yearbook, 1952, p. 382; "Death
Comes to the World's Richest Negro," 66-68, 70
59. Johnson to L. B. M., June 17, 1958, interview; Christian Science Monitor,
Dec. 3, 1949; Dallas Morning News, Sept. 18, 1949, July 6, 1950; Kansas City Call,
Feb. 2, 1940; Texas Writers' Project, Fort Worth, 20691-20692; Bundy, McDonald,
98-100; Murphy, "Negro Segregation Practices in Texas," 90; Munchus-Forde,
"History of the Negro in Fort Worth," 140; Houston Informer, Apr. 18, 1936, July
8, 1950; Fort Worth Star-Telegram, July 6, 12, 1950. According to "Death Comes to
the World's Richest Negro," 67, McDonald's financial decline came about thusly:
"but generous to himself, to charity as well as to his numerous wives (he had five), he
doled out his money liberally rather than have his heirs pay tremendous inheritance
taxes." On the same page, the article argued, "legend has distorted much of
'Gooseneck's' amazing career, but it is an admitted fact that in later years he ac-
quired a penchant for young brides '20 or under.' On each he lavished $3,000 fur
coats, automobiles, jewelry and divorce settlements of $10,000. His marriage
bargains were struck with only one pre-agreed requisite: each had to return his first
wife's jewels when she decided to leave him." There is no other evidence to support
these statements that I have located.
60. "From Poverty to Banker," V, 3.
61. William M. McDonald, speech at Shreveport, Louisiana, Jan. 1, 1919, cited110
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