Word: decentes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some of the Cadillac prosperity is obviously false or forced; many Negroes are driven to spend their earnings in showy ways because they still cannot get the more ordinary things a white man with a similar income would buy, e.g., a decent home or a vacation trip to a good resort. Says a Negro leader in St. Louis (where Negro housing is particularly bad): "A flashy car becomes their living room, the only one they've got." Says a San Francisco Negro: "It is a sort of mobile aspirin tablet...
...often pays for his state of semi-equality. As a citizen, the Negro in the North, by & large, enjoys full rights: everywhere except in the border states, he is equal in the schools and in most public services. His great fight in the last decade has been for simple, decent treatment in everyday life. In this fight, he has made marked but uneven progress...
...stated that "the university will understand that it is dealing with human beings and not with statistics or budgets; that we are workers who want to work under improved conditions with decent wages and genuine job security...
...town up for sale, refused all offers to sell it for salvage. Last fall a Los Angeles real-estate man named Harry Kem* turned up with a different idea. He had become interested in the problem of people past 65 who were having a hard time finding decent places to live within their means. Why not turn Ryderwood into a model city for old folks...
...hero of his book is a 1 ft. 4 in. lizard named Frut, a happy-go-lucky character with a decent respect for the customs of his native tableland. Frut says his prayers dutifully, bows to the wisdom of the Sages, and even intones the slogan, "All lizards are born equal"-though he knows that the tableland is a caste society where high-born tablelanders like himself treat the lowly creekers (creek-dwellers) as slaves and sluts...