Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Northern Republicans have for many years threatened to "do something" about Southern disfranchisement of the Negro, and here was an admirable opportunity to do it. So the Tinkham amendment was passed, by a narrow margin Amid hysterical excitement, Congressman Tinkham kept hopping up and down, while his huge black beard bristled with triumph as he watched the (momentary) victory of his long-championed but apparently hopeless cause...
...whole state of South Carolina. It derived from a lady living near the centre of the state on Lang Syne Plantation, 40 miles from Columbia. She, Mrs. Julia Peterkin, began acquiring national distinction as an authoress five years ago when she published Green Thursday, followed in 1927 by Black April. All her major characters are South Carolina Negroes, drawn as she has known them all her life on a South Carolina plantation. Not everything that plantation Negroes do is charming or even pleasant to contemplate. But nearly everything that Mrs. Peterkin's characters did and said was interesting...
...announced a book called Scarlet Sister Mary, librarians throughout South Carolina ordered copies as a matter of course. They were a little taken aback to read the publisher's blurb that this was "the story of the harlot of Blue Brook Plantation.'' But since there are black harlots on some plantations, and everyone knows it, most South Carolina librarians read the book anyway and put it on the shelves...
...Turner, until Booker Washington silenced him in the '90s, advocated all U. S. Negroes to follow. Captain Harry Dean's call, issued at the turn of the Century, did not reach the race in a broadcast manner and was even less successful than the short-lived Black Star Line of Jamaica's Marcus ("Black Moses") Garvey, who was deported from the U. S. last year. Back-to-Africa movements, implying escape as the answer to the assimilation v. segregation problem, are nowadays viewed with scorn by progressive U. S. Negroes...
With each issue of the Cherokee Times, the issue of Scarlet Sister Mary will grow greater, for over and above the question of a black wench's "immorality," is the question of whether or not conditions on South Carolina plantations are as Mrs. Peterkin paints them, and above that comes the question of whether or not such conditions should be recognized and discussed. "If you know South Carolina," chuckled the Cherokee Times, "You may surmise that the storm will be more than a zephyr...