Word: second-class
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...also a denial of rights? Segregation was not peculiar to the South-it was simply more universally enforced there. In the North, not only in the eyes of hotel owners and real estate dealers, but in the eyes of the vast majority of people, the Negro was still a second-class citizen. Those whites who considered the Negro their social equal were a minute exception to the general rule. As a Southern Regional Council report recently pointed out: "The South certainly has no monopoly on prejudice and discrimination." But, added the report, this is no excuse for the South...
...simple policy: shove them off on reservations as wards of the government. As dutiful a guardian as its neighbor to the south, the government fed & clothed its wards and looked after their health. But the red men remained a race apart, with the rights of second-class citizens...
This latter race, in all probability, will see Navy and Penn, (both out for revenge), Princeton, (whose 12-inch defeat hardly relegates it to a second-class naval power), Yale, and Syracuse (which lost to Cornell by about the same dis- tance as did Harvard), all in contention against the Crimson...
...while the band was playing God Save the King, because we had a Hanoverian and not a Jacobite king." More significant was the rest of his background: upper middle class, Harrow-Cambridge, chapel-turned-Church, just the proper mixture of trade and land and what he proudly admitted were "second-class brains." With this equipment, plus a sturdy character, for three times as Prime Minister he ruled a Britain that distrusted brilliance...
...scion of a wealthy U.S. family -a young Yaleman, adept at billiards, girdling the globe in search of a cure for a broken heart. She was a second-class geisha in old Kyoto. But from the moment he first spied her picture outside the Ono-Tei teahouse, George D. Morgan (son of J. P. Sr.'s sister Sarah and a distant cousin, George Hale Morgan) thought more & more of fragile, fragrant O-Yuki and less & less of a frosty Miss Meta Mackay, who had broken her engagement to him back in the States...