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Civil rights

During his administration, lynchings of African-Americans decreased and millions of people left the Ku Klux Klan.[143]

While the above statement is true, the decrease in KKK membership had little to do with Calvin Coolidge. It was primarily due to the imprisonment of Grand Dragon D. C. Stephenson for the rape and subsequent death of Madge Oberholtzer. Calvin Coolidge refused to make a strong statement against the KKK. This inaction was one catalyst that led to African-Americans leaving the Republican Party. [144]

[144] Egan, Timothy (2023), A Fever in the Heartland.Penguin Random House, ISBN 978-0-7352-2526-8 DanteJonesnyc (talk) 17:30, 10 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Personal knowledge is not verifiable to our readers or editors and therefore not acceptable, even if you're an Expert. - FlightTime (open channel) 17:51, 10 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

"Scholars have ranked Coolidge in the lower half of U.S. presidents."

This sentence seems completely out of place in the paragraph it leads. It's immediately followed by explaining what he is praised for, and it doesn't have any kind of reference. I'll leave it to the Wikipedia experts to figure out what might be better. 113.166.212.229 (talk) 13:48, 11 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Calvin Coolidge was president from 1925-1929, not 1923-1929. 208.184.249.114 (talk) 17:05, 12 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: whitehouse.gov says otherwise [[1]] Shadow311 (talk) 17:48, 12 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Party political offices
Preceded by Grafton D. Cushing	Republican nominee for Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts 1915, 1916, 1917	Succeeded by Channing H. Cox

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