Word: crowism
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...midsections.") Maurice Lynch, the author of "Old Salty," also makes the mistake of compressing his story so tightly that we never have a chance to become interested in the characters. The only thing that can be said for the tale is that it has an important subject (Jim Crowism), but the treatment is naive and the dialogue completely unnatural...
...most fun the Republicans had all week was listening to caterwauling Democrats, squirming under the President's civil-rights program with its proposed elimination of Jim Crowism on railroads and buses. Screams of rage and threats of revolt poured forth from Southern Democrats. Roared Mississippi's Senator James Eastland: "This proves that organized mongrel minorities control the Government." From the House floor, Georgia's Gene Cox chanted: "Sounds like the program of the Communist Party...
When the U.S. went south in 1904 to dig the big ditch it took Jim Crowism into the tropics. Skilled U.S. foremen were paid in gold currency; locally recruited labor, mainly Jamaican Negroes, were paid in silver. Those on the gold roll shopped at "gold" commissaries; those on the silver roll went to others marked "silver." Drinking fountains labeled gold and silver stood side by side. At the post-office were two separate wickets. The system went farther: the few Negroes on the gold roll would never have dreamed of sending their children to the superior gold schools, though theoretically...
...Second, we must face up to the problem of racial discrimination in Christian America. The Hindu can say, 'My religion makes no pretense to be against racial discrimination, and yours does. Yet Jim Crowism is practiced all over your country...
Last week the New York Times took a long look at the problem, came up with an editorial stand against "extending Jim Crowism to the printed page . . . [which helps] build up the bad moral climate which does encourage violence among the ignorant, the weak and the vicious." Said the Times: "[In crime stories] Negroes are often identified, whereas members of other races are not. This may seem a small thing. The Negroes do not think...