Word: crowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Louis Jim Crow walks on one leg: Negroes ride the streetcars and buses with the white folks; a portrait of Dred Scott has a prominent place among the historical monuments in the Jefferson Memorial. But in St. Louis, as in all Missouri, public schools are Jim Crow schools. So, in practice, have been the Roman Catholic parochial schools. There was no actual color line, but it was always well understood by Catholic Negroes that their children were to go to the overcrowded all-Negro schools in the crowded Negro districts...
...domestic issue was discrimination in the shape of quota systems and Jim Crow facilities. What would ordinarily have amounted to a simple conflict of attitude between white delegates became complicated by the easily exploitable character of the entire affair for such agitation groups as Young Progressive Citizens of America and American Youth for Democracy. Negro delegates found themselves the focus of solicitous attentions. They were urged not to "back down." Only the counter-efforts of interested liberals from both North and South finally gained Negro support for give-and-take...
Conditioning classes at indoor Athletic Building 11:15, 12:15, 5:00, Coaches Fradd, Harper, Cox and Parker; Crow at Nowell Boat House from 2:00 to 5:00, Coaches Bolles, Haines, and Love; Cross Country at Dillon Field House, 1:00 to 5:30, Coach Mikkoia...
...Crow Prospects...
Actors' Equity Association has often grumbled its displeasure at the Jim Crow policies of Washington theaters. Last week, the powerful union did more than grumble. It persuaded the League of New York Theaters, representing 126 producers and theater operators, to support its stand. After Aug. i, 1948, promised the League, actors will not be required to appear in any Washington theaters which persisted in barring Negro patrons...