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...Columbian," Davis snapped in 1934. His own vision of America as subject was much broader. It took in "wood-and ironwork of the past; Civil War and skyscraper architecture; the brilliant colors on gasoline stations, chain store fronts and taxicabs," as well as "Earl Hines' hot piano and Negro jazz music in general." His desire, he wrote, "is to construct formal souvenirs which are an agreeable emblem" of the "speeds and spaces of the American environment." In its voracious inclusiveness (admitting, as subject, anything American from landscape to 5 and 10? store kitchen utensils), Davis' imagination cast long...
Benjamin Mays, president emeritus of Morehouse College, on the U.S. today: "If this is a melting pot, I don't want the Negro to melt away...
This new populism is not the demagogy of a Bilbo or a Vardaman who used the black man as well as Wall Street as their whipping boys. Vardaman, often spoken of as the "Negro-cussin' Vardaman" and the "Great White Chief," dressed himself completely in white--white suit, white shit, white tie, white hat and white shoes, symbolical of white supremacy, as well as set himself up as the champion of the farmer against predatory bankers and businessmen whom he saw as locusts devouring the farmer. Finch, however, won over 80 per cent of the black vote in his gubernatorial...
...last beautiful German city still intact has now gone. Thus we say a melancholy farewell to a past which will never return." He observes that "the fate of the Reich sometimes seems to hang by a thread," and speculates darkly that the Allies will treat Germany "like a Negro colony in Africa...
...mothering, not only from Pop and my brothers and sister when they were home, but from the whole of our close-knit community...if I were to try to put down the names of all the folks who helped to raise me, it would read like a roster of Negro Princeton... Hard-working people, and poor, most of them, in worldly goods--but how rich in compassion! How filled with the goodness of humanity and the spiritual steel forged by centuries of oppression!... Here in this little hemmed-in world where home must be theatre and concert hall and social...