Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...starters entered the postwar automobile race last week...
...Freedom is an indivisible word. We must be prepared to extend it to everyone, whether they are rich or poor, whether they agree with us or not, no matter what their race or ... color. ... We must have faith that the welfare of one is the welfare of all. . . . Only the productive are strong. Only the strong are free...
...white jury filed into the trial room of the Lawrenceburg, Tenn. courthouse and faced pink, plump Circuit Judge Joe Ingram. For two tense weeks, 25 Tennessee Negroes had been on trial, 23 of them charged with the attempted murder of four white policemen in the ill-famed Mink Slide race riot at Columbia (TIME, March 11). Now, after one hour and 53 minutes of deliberation, the verdict was in: two guilty; 23 not guilty. Exclaimed white Defense Attorney Maurice Weaver jubilantly: "A victory for Americanism...
Attorney Weaver was holding himself in. In the more than seven months following the night of shooting, Southern race prejudice had got such a thorough airing that acquittal for any of the defendants seemed like a minor miracle...
Sunday the Crimson yachtsmen will enter the freshman championships at Tech, and the following week will race in Brown University's invitation regatta at Providence...