Word: racialization
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Last week, 324 years after the coming of the first Negroes in Virginia,† the strings of U.S. racial tension were taut and throbbing across the land. In jam-packed Detroit, where for 24 hours riot had raged (TIME, June 28), pent-up ill feeling between whites and Negroes was a silence more ominous than sound...
...riot was not planned; was not inspired by enemy agents; resulted from smoldering racial tension. It was touched off by a rumor that a Negro woman and her child had been killed. "Irresponsible" white and Negro youths caused most of the casualties and property damage...
...obvious facts, the report added a harsh indictment: prime responsibility for the riot lay at the door of the Negro leaders and the Negro press. Said the report: "Perhaps tension in Detroit is the positive exhortation by many so-called Negro leaders to be militant in the struggle for racial equality. . . . [Negro] newspapers repeatedly charge that there is no more democracy here than in Hitler's Europe or in Japan . . . the obvious purpose of which is to drive home to Negro readers the alleged fact of their servitude and to arouse a belligerent reaction...
These were not empty words, pronounced out of foggy good will by mere do-gooders. This program was the fruit of a series of four hard-working meetings, soberly and thoughtfully attended to draw up a charter for racial cooperation. The men and women who attended them make up a roster of first-rate Southern leaders. Among them: Mrs. Jessie Daniel Ames, Field Secretary, Commission on Interracial Cooperation; President Rufus E. Clement, Atlanta University; President Mordecai Johnson, Howard University; Editor Ralph McGill, Atlanta Constitution; Bishop Arthur J. Moore, Atlanta; President Frederick D. Patterson, Tuskegee Institute...
...Workshop, though, is not looking for solutions, but is rather trying to find promising approaches for school efforts in the interest of inter-racial adjustment, "going at it in as cautiously realistic and experimental a way as possible." Besides examining current practices in schools, and engaging in frequent discussions, they have heard from many experts in other fields, such as Dr. Allport, associate professor of Psychology...