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Word: nigger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sunny morning a little knot of white students gathered at the gas station across San Pedro Street from the school. Waving placards lettered "No Nigger Wanted," they hoisted two effigies to a lamppost, urged students to cut classes and join the picket line. Soon 600 of Fremont's 2,900 students were out on strike, 200 of them milling through San Pedro Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Same Rights, Same Privileges | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

...right, son," replied Old Gene. "But son, go easy on that white-primary bill. They got a nigger fireman down here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: Hummon, 2; Thompson, 1 | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

...legislature convened they jammed the galleries, carrying paper bags full of lunch. They jostled each other, talked loudly, and spat tobacco juice on the marble walls. They damned Governor Arnall. Bawled one: "Say, did you hear they give Arnall a medal at Noo Orleens for bein' the biggest nigger-lovin' governor Georgy ever had?" As the session dragged on, many took off their coats and slept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: Strictly from Dixie | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

...wretched, sick and snarling little man. But he had the voice of a brass trumpet blaring venom and racism. "I call upon every red-blooded white man to use any means to keep the nigger away from the polls," he had screamed. He had a name that sounded like the chugging of a bullfrog: Bilbo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: That Man | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

...controversial career of Georgia's "Wild Man from Sugar Creek" came to its end. No contemporary politicians except Louisiana's Huey Long and Mississippi's Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo had appealed so successfully to ignorance and bigotry. Gene Talmadge had been vehemently for keeping "the nigger" in his place. He had opposed high wages and labor unions, and had taken a dim view of education for the masses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: Death of the Wild Man | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

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