Word: crowism
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...years, Woodward, who died of bronchitis last week at 71, made athletics as important to his readers as they were to him. Quoting liberally from Latin and French, Milton and Shakespeare, he ranged over the entire world of sports, from its gambling to its psychology to its Jim Crowism. When a lady reporter once told him that it was her ambition to write "fun" sports stories, he summarily fired...
There is always a tendency to "romanticize" the Negro, said Wakefield. He described the evolution of Jim-Crowism--"All Negroes are lazy, stupid, and have rhythm"--into "Crow Jimism"--"All Negroes are intelligent, industrious, artistic, and have rhythm...
...entertained her husband's dull friends, learned to take their new-rich gaucheries in stride, brought up two fine children. But she never stopped criticizing Texas, never let Texans drag her down to their level. At Giant's end, daughter Luz has rebelled against Texas' Juan-crowism, is sweet on a young fellow who is interested in scientific farming and doesn't give a hang about million-acre ranches. Son Jordan is married to a Mexican girl, aims to become a doctor and work among the poor. In short, says Author Ferber, there's hope...
...Crow. Some Negro leaders resented the very steps, small and often grudging, that were making the South a more tolerable place for the Negro to live. They argued that every attempt to build better segregated parks and schools was only perpetuating what they were fighting to end: Jim Crowism. It was probably a valid conclusion. Many white Southerners were working unselfishly to reduce the Negro's squalor, illiteracy and ill-health, to end his disenfranchisement and ease his fear of violence. Perhaps a majority of these same Southerners still insisted that segregation was an institution that must...
Then the Worker's editors discovered that Boysen was of Puerto Rican descent. The issue was plain as a picket's placard: the case had sinister overtones of Jim Crowism and white supremacy. In a furious editorial the Worker slapped down its sportwriters : "We regret that [they] should have tended in one case to minimize and in the other case to overlook this social aspect of the Durocher case, their comments ranging from a 'let's-hear-from-both-sides' to a 'it's-too-difficult-to-judge' attitude...