Sam Caldwell

Samuel Shepherd Caldwell, was a Louisiana Petroleum in [the United States|oilman] and politician who served as mayor of Shreveport, Louisiana, from 1934 to 1946.
Caldwell was an unusually staunch segregationist even for the era in the Deep South. In 1943, Caldwell chose to turn down $67,000 in federal funds for a new medical center because it would have required hiring 12 blacks out of every 100 workers. "We are not going to be bribed by federal funds," Caldwell explained, "to accept the negro as our political or social equal"; federal officials would not "cram the negro down our throats."