sentences:  His support soon began to diminish and so Gordon looked elsewhere, once again finding an unlikely ally on the opposite side of the moral compass in Senator Theodore G. Bilbo.An ardent white supremacist, Bilbo had been campaigning within government for racial separatism for a while.He proposed an amendment to the House Joint Resolution 679 – a work relief bill – in 1938, that would have "repatriated" African-American volunteers to Liberia, providing them with financial assistance.