Word: racialization
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...have anything like an adequate democracy unless we have racial equality," Francis O. Matthiessen, professor of History and Literature, stated yesterday, as he prepared for tonight's speech before the Harvard Liberal Union and the Radcliffe League for Democracy...
...people in the community concerned with freedom of speech are concerned when a book dealing seriously with contemporary social history is confused with ostensibly obscene literature. In the case of "Strange Fruit," he added, "certainly the fact that it was an argument against racial prejudice has caused some people to disapprove of it. If we are not careful, Massachusetts is going to be increasingly difficult for adult, intelligent books...
Happiest about Bullock's appointment was former Parole Chairman Reuben L. Lurie. In Boston, bedeviled by uneasy racial relations, the appointment seemed a step toward a new atmosphere. Said Bullock: "It's a great thing for my people...
...Logan's contributors answers the title-question promptly, briefly, and in the same way, then passes on to what really interests him: how the Negro is to get what he wants. All 14 want "complete equality in the body politic," "full social equality," "first-class citizenship," "the same racial equality at the ballot box that we have at the income-tax window." But on the "how" of getting these things, Editor Logan's 14 writers split basically into two camps, choosing roughly between the methods of two famous Negro leaders: conservative, cautious, compromising Booker T. Washington and politically...
...electors on the ballot. Mindful of the Texas fracas, Governor Thomas L. Bailey had assured Mississippi that all nine electors promised to support the Roosevelt-Truman ticket. But last week, long after the state's Sept. 7 deadline, the four anti-Roosevelt electors apparently decided that the racial plank of the Democratic platform was "obnoxious." Day later, Gov. Bailey said he would call a special session of the Legislature, ask for a law which would force all electors to vote for the State's choice, i.e., Franklin Roosevelt...