Word: crowism
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Negroes are coming to realize that the Negro dilemma is not confined to the South, that the old Negro idea of Northern freedom is a "myth." Since Pearl Harbor they have watched Army and Navy segregation policies carry Jim Crowism into towns and villages in which it had never existed before. "Democracy to many," concludes Sterling A. Brown, "seems to be symbolized by this message ... on a bus in South Carolina: 'If the peoples of this country's races do not pull together, Victory is lost. ... Be patriotic. Avoid friction. White passengers will be seated from front...
Zions Herald has always championed the Negro. As an Abolitionist publication it was largely responsible for the secession of Southern Methodism in 1844 (Southern Bishop James O. Andrew's wife owned slaves). It has consistently protested against Jim Crowism in Methodist Church policies...
...possesses," he says, ". . . the will and the physical unity and the power to achieve what it should have achieved 50 years ago-total democracy in the United States." Congress must enact a "new Federal civil-rights statute." It must outlaw the poll tax in Federal elections and "Jim Crowism on all types of interstate carriers." It must pass a "Federal anti-lynching statute." To implement this policy, it must use the bludgeon of hard cash. All Government grants to states and communities, both for war and postwar industries, housing developments, down to "every concern from which the Government purchases...
Chicago's short, energetic Roman Catholic Bishop Bernard J. Sheil is a true and tried friend of labor, children and the Negro. His influential Catholic Youth Organization (he spent most of a $100,000 legacy from his father in organizing it) everywhere follows his principle that "Jim Crowism in the Church is a disgraceful anomaly." Last week, in a little pamphlet called If I Were A Negro (reprinted from The Negro Digest), Bishop Sheil spoke out strongly to his colored brethren. Said...
...distressing to me to see that it is always the John Reed Society or some other radical organization that comes out against Jim Crowism...