Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Massachusetts F.E.P.C. bill, like that of New York, would lay penalties on employers who discriminate against workers because of race, color, or creed. Liberal forces throughout the nation are working to pass such laws in every state...
Earl Conrad is free, white and 36, a Hearstwhile reporter who became a Negro expert for Manhattan's race-conscious PM. Last week he quit PM to head the New York bureau and write a column for the New Dealing Negro Chicago Defender ("World's Greatest Weekly"), which already has a Japanese-American on its staff. Said Conrad: "No white paper is prepared to speak out on the Negro question. . . . There has been a conspiracy of silence. This is changing rapidly now, but I am apparently ahead of the trend...
...York. And everywhere else-in Reno, where gambling houses had stayed open all night, in Chicago. Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami-night spots decided to observe it. In the comparative calm which followed this reluctant acceptance, a Detroit bartender gave the new rule a name. "First we had the race tracks closed," he said. "Then we had the brown out and now we've got the Byrne...
...birdies, one eagle to equal the course record of 64. His tourney-winning 267-a fabulous 21 under par-put him seven strokes up on Nelson, who came from nowhere to finish second. It also gave him a five-four lead over Nelson in the winter winner's race. Any golfer who could do that required no sympathy for his bad back and worse hook...
...seem to flash by like a scene of violence caught in the spotlight of a passing automobile, clear, vivid, frightening, but without relation to the life around it. Black Boy helps to explain that lack of relation. It is the story of a man set apart from his own race by sensitivity and intellect, yet barred forever from the white race by the color of his skin...