Word: negress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, March 6 there appeared an article dealing with the refusal of the Daughters of the American Revolution to permit the Negress Anderson to sing in Constitution Hall in Washington. In this article, Washington was referred to as "provincial." This was spiteful and entirely unjustified. Remarks of that nature show that all small people do not live in small towns...
...matter of fact, there is a colored theatre, the Howard, which could have been used without arousing any protest as it is a fit place for a Negress to sing...
Against a background of the Haitian uprising led by Toussaint L' Ouverture in 1802 is painted the picture of a girl, who has been brought up in a French family only to learn that she is half Negress. Behind her sudden renunciation of her country and finance and her espousal of the Haitian cause is less patriotism than the admission of a type of "inferiority" too often decried in this country, though seldom recognized in France. Because it is alien to the democratic spirit and because it may easily offend many whose money supports the Federal Theatre, the choice...
...ball to benefit the South Central (Negro) district of Chicago's United Charities fortnight hence, 5,000 whites & blacks will gather to hear Negress Ethel...
Cases. In his treatise on genital abnormalities Dr. Young gives the medical histories of 55 cases, and the plastic surgical operations which he performed on as many of them as he could to make them at least look like normal men or women. One hermaphrodite, who passed as a Negress, told him: "I have derived great pleasure from, many sexual affairs with women, and never with my two husbands." Dr. Young assured her-him that it would be easy to make her into a man, but only at the cost of her female configuration. The hermaphrodite: "If you did that...