Word: colored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Arguing, therefore, that the Texas "white primary" law is virtual, if not actual defiance of the "race, color or servitude" provision of the Constitution, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has engaged counsel to carry an appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court. Associated with the counsel will be Moorfield Storey, a leader of the bar in a city famous for its championship of the Negro−Boston...
...Sect, i, of the Constitution says: "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude...
...upon them in the Grand Central Galleries, thought of the famed eggs of history−of Humpty-Dumpty, of the egg of Columbus, even of the fabulous, the cosmic, Egg. For this is the magic of Artist Fechin. He is a superb technician. His command of brushing, of absolute color, is masterly. He deceives the eye, some- times for a minute at a time, into mistaking for a great painting a work which is in reality "no more creative than a virtuoso's playing of a Chopin minuet...
This story was particularized, emphasized, dramatized, sentimentalized, moralized and painstakingly advertised for eight days by newspapers good, bad and indifferent. Chapman's picture appeared time and again: "Picking his jury. . . . Answering prosecutor. . . . Talking with counsel. . . . Eating lunch." And the "color" paragraphists described him: "Master criminal mind. . . . Intellec- tual desperado. . . . Misguided genius. . . . Stoic sinner. . . . Finely modeled head of a thinker.* . . . Artistic hands...
...Professor Haffner," continued Dean Edgell, "is a more recent arrival, but his work in water color as well as in architecture is becoming well known in the United States. He is an architect by profession and winner of the Grand Prix de Rome, but the material on view at Robinson Hall shows that he might have been quite as successful a painter as he is an architect. Mr. Conant is especially well known to the public on account of his pencil sketches...