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...woman, but to a Southerner, unthinkable" would be interested to know that the writer, who is superintendent of the National Training School for Girls (the institution for white and colored girls which was so signally honored by Mrs. Roosevelt), is also a Southern woman, a Georgian, descended from slave-owning ancestry...
...Rimsky-Korsakov *Overture to "Russian and Ludmilla" Glinka Variations on the Austrian National Anthem (from the String Quartet, Op. 76, No. 3 Haydn "Briar Rose," Waltz Tchaikovsky Orgy of the Spirits from the Oriental Suite, "Noure and Anitra" Hynsky *"Dreams" Wagner Violin Solo: Julius Theodorowicz *March Slave Tchaikovsky Hans Wiener and Dance Group with Orchestra *"La Valse" Ravel *Roumanian Rhapsody Enesco Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square
...survived by one daughter in Cincinnati, two daughters in Charleston, three great-granddaughters in Latonia, Ky., all the descendants of Lucian Fletcher of Lynchburg and all pure white. In 1932 in Chicago died Maria Fletcher Turner, Lucian Fletcher's chocolate-colored daughter by the late slave Mary. Of all his progeny, it turned out that Maria had done the best for herself in the way of worldly goods. She had married an enterprising blackamoor named Sheadrick B. Turner who had represented Chicago's Black Belt in the Illinois State Senate. When he died in 1927, he left...
...Boas argues that if common race prejudice had "instinctive" antipathy for its source, it would show itself in the most intimate of all contacts, the sexual relation. But throughout history slave-owners have bedded with female slaves of different race, whites have mated with Indians and Negroes. Southern children show no aversion whatever to black nurses, must be taught by their elders not to accept blacks as equals. The strongest antipathies are those between social castes like those of India and ancient Egypt - between people of the same race...
...Bontemps can sketch convincing characters, to use an overworked expression. His negroes are authentic, and so are his "planter" aristocrats. Ben, the loyal old slave, who betrays the insurgents; Melody, the mulatto mistress of the white rascals; Juba, the slave girl who is in love with the hero; Mr. Moseley Sheppard, Ben's master; Pharaoh, the other traitor--all these characters remain fixed in the memory some time after one has finished reading the book. Gabriel, the hero, who had pondered on the exploits of Toussainat L'Ouverture, the Haitian patriot, is not so forceful as a better novelist would...