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Meanwhile the new Governor of South Carolina* has done nothing more than his predecessor to punish the lynchers of the Lowman Negroes and Negress (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LYNCHING: Georgia Justice | 2/14/1927 | See Source »

...would-be humor about the Negro of 30 years ago. For, in telling of the ejection of Mrs. Blanche S. Brookins, a colored woman of culture and intelligence and an interstate passenger, from a Pullman car in Florida, TIME says: "They (the passengers) heard one Blanche S. Brookins, Negress, snorting and scolding: 'Yoh all let me 'lone yoh whaht trash. I gotta ticket!' " Knowing Mrs. Brookins and her family, having attended college with her cousin, a prominent Negro physician of Florida, such would-be cleverness is painful to the point of bordering on nausea. Perhaps TIME could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 31, 1927 | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

...second movement, "Joice Heth ? 161-year-old Negress," was being played. That swathing sound in the woodwinds suggested her boast, capitalized by Barnum for 25c admission, that she was first to swathe George Washington at birth. Rather an indecent theme?like all operas ? but a good deal of the piece seemed to be built around a Negro spiritual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red Rhapsody | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

Last week a Negress, Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune, talked to the Women's City Club of New York. She talked about the members of her race who have migrated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEGROES: Foremost | 1/24/1927 | See Source »

...Vice President Coolidge spoke at the dedication. A knowledge of these things added interest, for the clubwomen, to the competent, slow speech of Mrs. Bethune. And she further interested them because, with her big comfortable body, big lips, slow voice, wise eyes, she sprang from that type of Negress which made such superlative nurses for the sons of neat white women- before these white women took up "social service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEGROES: Foremost | 1/24/1927 | See Source »

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