Word: colored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yesterday a volume of Cullen's poems was published by Harper Brothers. This volume, entitled "Color," takes its place beside "Corydon and Other Poems" as a book of verse published by a student in the University. "Corydon and Other Poems," written by Lucius M. Beebe '28, appeared a year ago and was well received by many critics. Beebe's volume, however, was his second to appear in the bookstores, his first collection, "Fallen Stars," having been published while he was at Yale...
...Color" is the first published work of Cullen, who is a negro. He has been writing poetry for a number of years, several of his poems appearing in newspapers and magazines...
...cause to take alarm at the sturdy growth of this bastard offspring of the more decent journals. The mushroom development to a circulation of 100,000 in less than a year Bernarr MacFadden's "Evening Graphic", trenchantly dubbed the "Porno Graphic", is food for unpleasant thought. It gives some color of justification to Dr. John Roach Straton's arraignment of modern civilization. If in some respects one discerns signs of healthy progress in American life, surely here is a mark of decadence. The thesis which George Jean Nathan presented not long ago in one of his more thoughtful moments...
Race Equality. Viscount Willingdon, sometime Governor of Bombay and Madras declared roundly before the Congress that the white man must let down the color bar to other races, in order to avoid an inter-racial war in the future. Said he: "Providence long ago placed the white man in a position of trusteeship . . . Now his colored wards have grown up . . . He can no longer dominate them . . . He must treat all colored men in a spirit of absolute equality . . . A clash of races would be the ghastliest tragedy in history...
...blue paint which has just made its appearance on the dial on the walls of Massachusetts Hall and under the eaves of Holden Chapel, startling as it seems to passersby on Massachusetts Avenue, is in reality no innovation but a return to the color scheme originally employed when the buildings were first constructed two centuries...