Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cynical Turning. Could the Democratic Party have avoided its civil war? The usual omens of political debacle were missing. The nation was prosperous at home, was working out a popularly approved program for decisive action abroad. On the face of it, Harry Truman himself seemed like a candidate who might have pleased all factions...
Despite the civil-rights uproar, the South, like the big-city bosses, could recognize him as a regular party man (unlike Franklin Roosevelt, who was regular only when it suited him). The old New Dealers might have been expected to applaud a President who had plumped hard for price controls, civil rights, and a big housing program. Labor might have been expected to rally around the man who had vetoed the hated Taft-Hartley law, had thrice vetoed what he called a rich man's tax bill...
...most controversial section was a gabled compromise decorated with the principle of civil rights: "We have implemented our often-expressed belief that racial and religious minorities have the right to live, develop, and vote equally with all citizens." To this was appended a Southern balustrade: an affirmation of the right of individual states to make their own laws...
...between flare-ups, the committeemen listened to lectures on education, agriculture, highway safety, taxes, fishing and the ladies' handbag industry. At last they faced the most explosive subject of all: civil rights...
Simple Issue. Negro witnesses demanded that Harry Truman's full civil rights program be built into the platform without qualifications. Said Dr. Channing Tobias, Negro educator and member of the President's Civil Rights Commission: "I say the issue is simple because it is this: either Negro Americans are citizens of the United States or they are not. If they are, then they are entitled to all the rights of citizenship. If they are not, then it is only fair that our government publish to the world that it has two classes of citizens...