Word: afros
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Federated Press, 117 were for Roosevelt, 19 were neutral; only one, the independent Central Labor Journal of Salina, Kans., was actively for Dewey. But the Pittsburgh Courier, largest U.S. Negro newspaper, came out for Dewey. Of the Negro press's two other "big three," the Baltimore Afro-American appeared to be leaning toward Dewey, while the Chicago Defender was still ardently pro-Roosevelt...
...highest ranking Negro officer in the U.S. Army, Brigadier General Benjamin O. Davis, said recently: "I am hoping to live long enough to see the time when we will have no hyphenated Americans . . . no Afro-Americans, no Negro-Americans . . . [when] all men can live together in peace and harmony...
Raul & Eva Reyes claim to have introduced the conga as a ballroom dance. But their specialty is the rumba. Reyes rumbas come in no less than 24 varieties, including the son, guajira, guaracha, punto-guajiro, bolero, bembé, Afro-Cuban, danzón, danza and danzonette. To all these, Raul & Eva bring a sinuous genius. Connoisseurs have risen to cry that when they begin the beguine they absolutely finish...
...this constituted the biggest revolution in U.S. popular musical taste since the "swing" craze began in the middle '30s. Public demand was shifting from Afro-American stomps and blues to a much simpler (and often monotonous) musical idiom that was old when nostalgic '49ers were singing Clementine. Hillbilly music is the direct descendant of the Scottish, Irish and English ballads that were brought to North America by the earliest white settlers. Preserved...
...Technical School at Yale) had suddenly, and disconcertingly, got rhythm. When it swung down the line blaring such hallowed items as John Philip Sousa's Stars & Stripes Forever in jive tempo, sober listeners began to wonder what U.S. brass-band music was coming to. Obviously, there was an Afro-Saxon in the woodpile...