Word: negroes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alabamian refused to admit Negroes to a public meeting, he would surprise nobody. Neither would a Virginian who refused to attend a church where Negroes were worshipping. Last fortnight the Rev. William St. John Blackshear, Texas-born Brooklyn rector, asked Negro members of his congregation to go elsewhere to church. A lot of people were surprised. A lot of others were incensed...
...been trained at the Virginia Theological Seminary and had done graduate work at Oxford and Harvard. They knew he was a captain in the War, cited for bravery. They knew he was 36 years old. What they did not realize was that like any true southerner Mr. Blackshear believes Negro and white civilization can at the best be parallel, never equal. This lesson he taught them dramatically at a Sunday service...
From his pulpit Mr. Blackshear read to his congregation, among whom were a few Negroes, a notice he had printed in the church bulletin: "The Episcopal Church provides churches for Negroes. Several of these churches are within easy reach of this locality. They are in the need of the loyal support of all true Negro churchmen. Therefore, the rector of this parish discourages the attendance or membership in this church of members of that race...
...Another famed Negro to play the Moor was Ira Aldridge in the early half of the 19th Century. To endow an Aldridge memorial chair in the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-on-Avon, U. S. Negroes recentlv subscribed...
...superiorities continues. National Research Council's Otto Klineberg found slight differences in the intelligence ratings of German, French and Italian children (Nordics, Alpines, Mediterraneans). City children of the three types were smarter than the corresponding country children. Nor did Vanderbilt University's Lyle Hicks Lanier find sharp differences between Negro and white children, or New Zealand's I. L. G. Suther- land between primitive (Maori) and civilized adults...