Word: racialization
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...Pretoria, 20 singing Negroes and one Indian were arrested for marching into the "white" section of the railway station. Eight hundred nonwhites were in jail in East London; 800 more in Port Elizabeth. The nonwhites hoped their defiance would moderate Prime Minister Daniel Malan's "unjust laws" (racial segregation) by i) filling the jails to overflowing, 2) catching the eye of the U.N. The African National Congress and the South African Indian Congress recruited 10,000 "volunteers" ready to go to jail when called. They were quite matter-of-fact about it. "I told my boss that...
...advice of the Indian embassy they soon switched to learning more about the U.S.; that is what the Indians would ask about. They combed local libraries and began tutoring themselves in subjects that might interest their Indian contemporaries: federal v. states' rights, U.S. foreign policy, capitalism v. Communism, racial problems in the U.S., the Korean question...
...drafted by Interior Minister Mario Scelba. whose name is usually anathema to the Reds. In rendering Fascism illegal, the Scelba law does a serviceable job of defining it. It bans any movement that 1) "exalts, threatens or uses violence"; 2) "advocates the suppression of [Constitutional] freedoms"; 3) engages in "racial propaganda"; 4) "denigrates democracy." Penalties: for Fascist activity, three to ten years in jail; for the Fascist salute, three months...
...members of the Theological School faculty, the university chaplain and the head of the college religion department) threatened to resign over their trustees' decision not to admit Negro seminarians. The trustees, representing 22 Southern Protestant Episcopal dioceses, argued that admission of Negroes would violate a Tennessee law requiring racial segregation in schools. The faculty members promised to give the trustees until June 1953 to reconsider, before their resignations took effect. The trustees' position, they said, is "untenable in the light of Christian ethics and of the teaching of the Anglican communion...
Many Southern politicians make no pretensions about racial equality. They don't want it, and are not afraid to say so. Others who don't want equality, but are afraid to say so, are perched on the same fence of states' rights as the General, et al. If the presidential candidates would look around at the Southerners they would realize how hypocritical their desire for equality but unwillingness to enforce it really is. They would sense the obvious fact that they are in the position of fellow travelers to the Bourbons and the bigots...