Word: racialization
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Wayland has received inquiries from Negroes before, but not until Miss Annie sent a transcript of her record did the college find one who was academically qualified. Like other Southern colleges, Wayland might well have waited until the courts ordered an end to racial restrictions. But one day before the spring term ended, Wayland's president, Dr. J. W. ("Bill") Marshall, called faculty and students away from final exams, asked them to vote on Miss Annie's application. No faculty members, and only nine out of 274 students, had any objection...
...some action among the Overseers. On April 9 Negroes in the freshman dorms, but "in the application of this rule, men of the white and colored races shall not be compelled to live and eat together." The Overseers report reaffirmed that the College would not bar any students for racial or religious reasons...
Balachovsky scrupulously pointed out differences between the Russian and German camps: the Reds do not perform scientific experiments on the prisoners, do not practice racial extermination; the possibility of release does exist. But, he concluded: the court "condemns before universal public opinion the Soviet concentration camps . . . already condemned by history...
...TIME called no innocent people Communists, did point out the facts-that Communists took over the McGee defense and used the case to increase racial tension...
...Pretoria, South Africa's Dutch Reformed Church (1,400,000 members) held a synod, solemnly condemned: 1) cremation ("a heathen custom"), 2) commercial radio programs on Sundays, 3) American comics ("doing untold harm"), 4) Freemasonry, 5) the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights. The churchmen rejected racial and sex equality ("God spoke to Adam, not to Eve"), as well as freedom of speech and opinion: "Heresy and untruth may not be spoken freely . . . The devilish tendencies in man place very definite limits on these freedoms...