Word: badeau
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After graduation in 1923, he became a reporter for the Kansas City Call, a leading black weekly. There he met Aminda Badeau, who was to be his wife for 51 years, and for the first time became aware of "the magnitude of racial bias in the U.S." Schools, movies, restaurants, even drinking fountains were segregated. "It was a slow accumulation of humiliations and grievances," he recalled. "Kansas City ate my heart out. It was a Jim Crow town through and through...