Word: brown-skinned
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...magic child Huia, with her ancestral talisman, a carved greenstone, and the grace of an imagination that has been touched by the best in two worlds. Sylvia Ashton-Warner does other things easily that most current writers would not attempt to contrive. Huia watches a fight between a brown-skin Maori and a white boy. They are not fighting for status, or out of racial bitterness. The boys are fighting over something real-her, a princess...
...segregation as McComb, Miss., Birmingham, Ala., and Albany, Ga. There have been some violent cases of defiance: in Mississippi one Negro was beaten when he tried to eat at a lunch counter; another was shot when he patronized a theater. Often Negroes are served grudgingly, but sometimes they get "brown-skin service," meaning they are received with such elaborate courtesy that they are actually embarrassed. In many places Negroes still have to bring suit to use swimming pools or golf courses. But in the larger cities, they can eat where they please, attend theaters and concerts without trouble; some middle...
...Singing brown-skin girl, Stay home and mind baby. Singing brown-skin girl Stay home and mind baby I'm going away in a sailing boat And if I don't come back, Stay home and mind baby...
...Important feature. For information call VA-2041 [the theatre]." In the same issue they found a large advertisement of a Negro burlesque show, displaying two nude Negro women with the caption: "It's a hot, sizzling performance of black & brown skin revues! Daring, intimate, greatest array of beautiful brown-skin models, with 89 teasing beauties on the stage...
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