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...grimy steel district which surrounds the project. Last week a petition signed by 17,000 South Side residents was presented to city officials. It asked that police protection to persons moving into new homes be limited to the first 24 hours regardless of "the race, the color or the creed." Even on last week's quiet night, teen-agers skulked in the lot across from the Howard apartment. Growled a cop to a young tough: "Why aren't you home watching Arthur Godfrey?" The youth spat on the sidewalk. Said he: "It's a free country...
...houses, Alastair claws his way to the top of the class and gets to Cambridge University-"a wee Scottie on the make." he gleefully calls himself. He takes Cathy away from Patrick as briskly and heartlessly as a cat would snatch a piece of meat, and he declaims his creed in the mocking tones of one who will never be shackled by ties of tradition and sentimentality. "We spit on Bonny Prince Charlie and Flora Macdonald. on Rizzio's blood and Mary Queen of Scots. [But of all Company Directors in the City of London and overseas ... of Scottish...
...long after he became governor of California in 1943, Warren laid down a rule: "I don't want to hear of any of my department heads refusing to hire anyone for reasons of race, color or creed." Among Warren's own appointments was Edwin L. Jefferson, the first Negro ever named to California's Superior Court. To each of the California legislative sessions, from 1945 through 1953, Warren proposed, in one form or another, a state agency to assure fair treatment of all races. The proposal was rejected each time, but Warren personally stuck to the stand...
...rejection of what has been called "the apostasy of the missionary churches" from the early simplicity of Christianity and of the first missionaries. But it is even more a manifestation of the hunger of the colored man to be free of white domination and stand on his own-"the creed of 'Africa for the Africans' as expressed in church terms...
...fact, segregation has been on its way out for a good long time . . . Two great forces have been at work on ... the problem of race. One is secular, the other religious. The Christian of today cannot help but wince at the full implications, and the jarring clash of his creed, with discrimination against any person because of color. To send missionaries to colored peoples and then to argue that because of the color of skin the two may not . . . worship the same God together is an impossible contradiction...