Word: jim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was one note of encouragement. Back from his two-day visit in Missouri (where his candidate for Congress ran last in a field of four), Harry Truman threw a chicken dinner at the White House for all living ex-chairmen of the Democratic Party. Jim Farley could not make it; he was en route to Europe. Neither could John J. Raskob, who had already predicted victory for Tom Dewey. But such oldtimers as Ohio's George White, who managed the unsuccessful Cox-Roosevelt campaign of 1920, and ex-Attorney General Homer Cummings arrived to assure the President that...
Rough Campaign. The boss had strung along with ex-Auctioneer Jim McCord, out to get a third term, for Governor. This time, for the first time in 20 years, Crump's support was a liability: all over Tennessee, people had finally become fed up with one-man rule from Memphis. They were also fed up with McCord, mainly because he had jammed a 2% sales tax through the legislature...
...sensation. But Sprigle had "crossed over" to see it through the Negro's eyes. Last week, in his own paper and 13 others (none of them south of what he had learned to call the "Smith & Wesson" line), Sprigle began telling what he saw "In the Land of Jim Crow." As an account of man's inhumanity to man-and man's capacity for enduring it-his series made Gentleman's Agreement seem gentlemanly indeed...
...Washington's Union Station, sun-browned Reporter Sprigle, alias Brother Crawford, climbed aboard a Jim Crow coach with his guide, a Negro businessman (and the only Negro who was in on his identity). Only his guide, his family and his Post-Gazette editors knew what Sprigle was up to. "From then on," he wrote, "until I came up out of the South four weeks later, I was black, and in bondage-not quite slavery but not quite freedom, either. My rights of citizenship ran only as far as the nearest white man said they...
Being well coached, he never caused an "incident"; he learned to touch his cap and be deferential to white people. He used the "for colored" entrances at stations, drank out of Jim Crow fountains, sat in Jim Crow parks and rode Jim Crow taxis, saw (and resented) many a town's Jim Crow honor rolls of war dead. In Georgia he found that even the Atlantic Ocean was Jim Crow, without "a single foot where a Negro can stick a toe in salt water...