Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Again you will see Yankee bayonets trying to force social and racial equality between the black and white races. . . ." he bellowed. "If that happens there are those among you who will see blood flow in these streets. The Klan will not permit the people of this country to become a mongrel race...
...back to a rural jail in Emanuel County where they are accused of having murdered a state patrolman. This was done to prove that no Georgian would lynch them. The Governor said that the Klan meetings should be outlawed. His reason: their activities might encourage the interference of Northern "race baiters...
...breaststroke is one race where time has brought disappointment rather than improvement. Captain Chuck Hoelzer, steady winner and strong competitor in both the 200-yard event and the crucial medley relay, has been forced to drop out of the lineup because of academic pressure, leaving the improving but not as yet firstrank Don Ulen to bear the brunt...
...early letter, "it does look a little queer to see me practically doing nothing at my age." These words touched on the festering sore of his conscience. Robinson could never quite accept the implications of his belief that "dollars are convenient things to have . . . but this diabolical, dirty race that men are running after them disgusts me. . . ." While bravely declaring "business be damned," he ruefully comments that "poetry is a good thing, provided a man is warm enough...
...more cruel the world, the greater the temptation to escape it in thought, and it is disquieting to consider the intensity of optimism which, failing the proper catharsis of constructive action, may shortly be necessary to deaden the pains that are now scarring the memory of the race...