Word: racialization
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...spite of H. R. Cullen and Jesse Jones, Texas is essentially a poor state and backward in many respects . . . The vast majority of our people, the low-income group, are not opposed to New Deal measures other than the attempts to promote racial equality. They have benefited greatly from the Democratic programs, and will probably stay with the party if it promises to continue these programs. The ultra-conservatives are really not typical of the state as a whole...
Civil Rights. "We must make equality of opportunity a living fact for every American, regardless of race, color or creed . . . There can be no second-class Americans . . . For 20 years, leaders of the Administration have been making promises . . . And yet after those 20 years, racial segregation still exists in our nation's capital...
...segragation finally won, however, when a couple of phone calls rectified the error and cleared the Council of any racial prejudice accusations
Negro and foreign graduate students who hunt housing in Cambridge meet with a shocking amount of racial discrimination. After a disheartening search for lodging near the University, many Negro students give up and live in the city's colored district, over a mile from their classrooms. Oriental students as well encounter strange looks and hasty refusals from landladies who later take in white students...
Massachusetts politicians, however, differentiate sharply between the racial groups making up the state's Catholic population. Most numerous are the Irish (750,000 or more), who are also the staunchest Democrats. Republicans have had the most success with the increasingly important Italians (300,000), but Democratic Governor Paul Dever has been working hard to mend his Italian fences...