Word: nicholases
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Broken Window. The bewildered victim was Fred Nicholas, a swarthy little cabinetmaker who moved into the predominantly poor-white Bertrams district of Johannesburg shortly after the law was passed. Dark as he was (he explained that his father was of Portuguese origin), he had long passed as white and been...
"Your kids broke my window with a slingshot," he said, and struck the schoolmaster. Smarting, Neighbor Fillis vowed vengeance, and knew how to get it. Informing the authorities that he himself had taught two of Nicholas' brothers when they were living in a native quarter, he got the authorities...
An array of friendly white neighbors took the stand to testify that Nicholas was accepted as a white in the neighborhood. But a more dramatic witness, a tan woman, took the stand, and carefully avoiding Nicholas' eyes, said: "My name is Susan Jacobs. I am the sister of the...
Nicholas testified: "I admit I sent two of my children to a colored school because they are dark, and I didn't want to hurt them." When Nicholas desperately produced two tickets to a 1955 rugby game to prove that he sat in the European section, the magistrate looked...
Broken Up. Under the Group Areas Act, Fred Nicholas was one of the first helpless figures caught by the searchlights as he shuffled uncertainly across the shadowy border that divides black from untrusting white in South Africa. To be reclassified as colored means that he will have to leave his...