Word: negroes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...phrase "political nigger lovers" in denouncing Mrs. De Priest's visit to the White House, Senator Love rushed at him savagely, shouting: "Any man who says the 300,000 Texans who voted for Hoover are nigger-lovers has the word LIAR branded across his brow." In Florida, another Negro-subjugating state that voted for Hoover, a resolution was passed, 71 to 13, in the state house, condemning "certain social policies of the administration. . . ." In presenting it, Representative Way, Democrat, said: "The State of Florida has been betrayed...
...Many a U. S. Negro is received at the White House executive office. And of course foreign Negroes-officials from Liberia, Abyssinia, Haiti -present their credentials in the Blue Room...
...Georgians in 1925 broke into an insane asylum, lynched a demented Negro who had killed his nurse...
Theophilus Joseph, Negro, is a Harlem elevator man. His wife Henrietta works in a laundry. She wants their 19-year-old foster-son Ronald to follow his foster-father's footsteps and run an elevator. Ronald is not unwilling, but he hopes that perhaps the world holds for him something more purposeful than an elevator. Ronald's reason: last week he had 60 watercolors, charcoal and crayon drawings ?athletes in action, ships in dock?on exhibition in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He had been singled out as the most promising current artist product of New York City...
...Fear of Negro progress, not of Negro crime. "The tendency to direct mob violence against successful Negroes has been especially noticeable during the past ten years of lynching...