Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...then you leave his question unanswered. . . . The board of trustees last July adopted the following resolution: "Resolved that no segregation of any individuals or groups of any kind on the basis of race or religion be allowed at any exhibition of the Freedom Train held anywhere...
...Negro who lives secretly as a white man. Wrote he : "Every year approximately 12,000 white-skinned Negroes disappear - people whose absence cannot be explained by death or emigration. Nearly every one of the 14 million discernible Negroes in the United States knows at least one member of his race who is 'passing' - the magic word which means that some Negroes can get by as whites. . . . Often these emigrants achieve success in business, the professions, the arts and sciences. Many of them have married white people. . . .Sometimes they tell their husbands or wives of their Negro blood, sometimes...
Walter White and Lena Home could mark a note of progress in race relations last week. Harvard University's football team started a Negro tackle, quiet, 6 ft. 4 in. Chester Pierce, in its game with the University of Virginia at Charlottesville. It was one of the very few times a Negro had played against a Southern university on a field south of the Mason-Dixon line. Many in the crowd of 24,000 Southerners waved flags of the Confederacy; many of them also applauded Harvard's Pierce for the hard game he played while his team took...
Starting time for the Varsity event is 3:45 o' clock. The Freshman will race their B. U. and Rhode Island counterparts in a preliminary contest...
There are eight seats on the Council and six on the School Committee. Stokes ran twelfth in a field of 35 in the 1945 Council race, while Hughes placed eighth in the School Board race even though he had more first place votes than several of the winners...