Word: nigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mary's mad, And I am glad, And I know what will please her; A bottle of ink To make her stink, And a little nigger to squeeze...
...Negroes to visit white schools and vice versa is to tempt them. Novelist Carl Van Vechten (The Tattooed Countess, Nigger Heaven, Peter Whiffle) has done just that with a scheme involving Yale and Fisk Universities...
...Vechten gift, the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of material by and about Negroes, has already been in place two years. It attracts many Negro scholars, has trebled in size since it was installed. It includes the books, manuscripts and photographs which Van Vechten began accumulating while writing Nigger Heaven, the novel which put Harlem on the U.S. cultural map. It includes, too, unique Negro musical material...
Most of all, he praised the Army nurses who ministered to him as a sick patient, and not just as a "nigger...
This line, in more practical form, was explained, to Carlson by a self-styled Detroit labor organizer. "You begins your work," said he, "by talking against the Jews and the nigger. The Jew got us into the war. You tell 'em that. The Jew is keeping labor down by controlling the money. It's the Jew who hires niggers and gives them low wages. . . . You ties in the niggers with the Jew, den you call the Jews Communists. That gets...