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Word: quieta (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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This is a departure from the usual Southern custom of quieta non movere in interracial matters. The notorious inequality of educational opportunities in the South is not realized by the Northerner. Nor is it generally comprehended this side the Mason-Dixon line that state institutions in the South, however liberal, cannot, with the present temper of feeling against the negro, dare to open their gates to him. Regardless of what constitutes ideal justice, any attempt at mixing the races in so crucial a concern as education would be certain to arouse a resentment both bitter and dangerous. Even...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SANCTUARY | 11/9/1933 | See Source »

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