Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Randolph declared bluntly: if a draft like that of World War II was enacted, it would result in "mass civil disobedience" on the part of U.S. Negroes. Said he: "Negroes have reached the limit of their endurance when it comes to going into another Jim Crow Army to fight another war for democracy-a democracy they have never gotten." Grant Reynolds, chairman of the Committee against Jim Crow in Military Service and Training, soberly agreed...
...Senators were shocked. Oregon's Wayne Morse asked whether Randolph realized that such civil disobedience would probably be prosecuted as treason. He did, and added: "We would be willing to absorb the violence, absorb the terrorism, face the music, and take whatever comes...
Harvard Youth for Democracy members began a door-to-door campaign yesterday publicizing their "Civil Rights Meeting" scheduled for April...
...Douglas stance on public questions fundamentally opposes Administration policy but keeps equally clear of Henry A. Wallace. On the domestic front he is pro-labor and eloquently defends minority rights and civil liberties. In defining the tieup between the national and international scene he outlines three basic and irreconcilable differences separating the polar forces of the globe. Democratic political philosophy in the first place rejects the absolutes characteristic of the totalitarian Right and the totalitarian Left. It furthermore shuns that political technique intended "to transform one small clique of men into the State." But most crucial of the distinctions marking...
...revenge that divides the austere Mannon family into two camps is also the conflict between Puritanical repression and the open sensuality of the foreigner. Except for details of place and time, O'Neill has not had to change Aeschylus' story at all: the Trojan War has become the Civil War, and Agemmemnon is now the victorious General Ezra Mannon...