Word: afro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over his application (TIME. Jan. 31). But Lautier's backers confidently expected the members to go along with the national trend toward desegregation and end their color bar. On the eve of the club's referendum vote. Lautier wrote a column for Washington's Negro semiweekly Afro-American, personally attacking two members of the club, George Durno of International News Service and Jerry Greene of the New York Daily News, for opposing his admission. After the column, many a middle-of-the-roader in the fight turned against Lautier, feeling that his piece was out of line...
Western diplomats had been inclined to dismiss talk of an Afro-Asian conference as little more than a frisky showing-off by the young governments of the world's recently freed colonial areas. But when they read the Prime Ministers' statement of principles, the agenda and the guest list, they began to worry. Still more mistrustful of a colonialism that is past than of a growing threat of Communism, filled with imagined and real grievances against the white man, most of the governments of Africa and Asia are vulnerable for exploitation. Western officials began to shudder...
...advantage of federation may be the customs union, facilitating freer trade for the sugar islands. Hopeful West Indians also believe that a larger economic unit is more likely to attract the outside capital so badly needed for further development. But for the region's politically dominant Afro-West Indians, the projected union probably represents less an effort to achieve economic betterment than to affirm a sort of nationhood that will erase the indignity of past slavery...
...Southern newspapers announced their choice. The Atlanta Journal, the South's largest daily (which has never supported a Republican for President), came out for Stevenson. The Charlotte News, largest evening paper in the Carolinas (which supported Tom Dewey in 1948), announced for Ike. In Baltimore, the Afro-American, the nation's largest Negro weekly (which supported the Republican nominee in 1940, '44 and '48), endorsed Stevenson.* ¶Lewis W. Douglas, who served as U.S. budget director under Franklin Roosevelt and as Ambassador to Great Britain under Harry Truman, introduced Eisenhower for a plane-side speech...
...Afro-American was angry because Republican Vice-Presidential Candidate Richard Nixon signed a restrictive covenant, preventing resale to a Negro, when he bought his house in Washington. The paper did not seem disturbed by the fact that Democratic Vice-Presidential Candidate John Sparkman, one of Nixon's neighbors, signed the same covenant. Both candidates live in a section where such covenants are automatically attached to house deeds...