Word: racialization
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...grades eight through twelve were restricted entirely to Jews. The board explained that the idea was to increase the ratio of gentile to Jew in the remaining classes so that gentile students no longer would feel outnumbered. Oddly enough, the experiment was not extended to those school activities where racial prejudices were most apt to crop out. In the gym, the library and the cafeteria there was no line drawn between Jewish and non-Jewish students; they played on the same teams, acted in the same school plays and attended the same school dances...
...before the Supreme Court a case barring racial discrimination from colleges in the South...
...uncertain about joining fraternities. The formula: "Mr. Joseph H. College regrets that owing to a previous conception of purpose lie will be unable to accept the kind invitation of Alpha Beta Gamma." The next day, as a "public service," The Dartmouth listed the eleven local fraternities which discriminate on racial or religious grounds...
There are, however, other decisions that might be considered as showing a trend to the right. AT the same time it handed down the Miami decision, the Court refused to review an Atlanta censorship case. City officials there had prohibited the showing of "Lost Boundaries"--a picture dealing with racial prejudice--under an ordinance allowing exclusion of any film "adversely affecting peace, health, morals, and good order...
Leaders of Thought. The City Club, which thinks that the Negro tag helps "to set Negroes apart" and thus adds to racial tensions in a city which has some 450,000 Negroes, was not satisfied. Last week, after seven months and more letters, the club took its case to Trib readers and the "leaders of thought in 'Chicagoland' " by mailing out 2,000 copies of an eight-page pamphlet "John Smith, Negro." In it, the City Club made its case against use of the racial label, arguing that "in a paper that emphasizes crimes of violence...