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Word: dalton (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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That afternoon Bigger is hired as chauffeur by Philanthropist Dalton, who makes his money in Negro tenements. It is a good job except for the philanthropist's radical daughter Mary. His first instructions are to drive her that evening to a lecture. She redirects him to a rendezvous with her Communist lover. What follows, as baffled and suspicious Bigger is accepted as a comrade, is one of the most devastating accounts yet printed of that tragicomic, Negrophilous bohemianism which passes among Communists as a solution of the Negro Problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bad Nigger | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

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