Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nothing quite like it had been attempted before. The 81 Negro children (ages nine to twelve) who left Manhattan this week to spend a fortnight in homes of white Vermont families was a new kind of experiment in race relations...
...Abyssinian Church more than 150 children filed applications to go to Vermont. Church workers interviewed each child and his parents, selected the children they thought most needed the change, would be happiest in white homes, would best represent the Negro race. About half of the children did not attend the Abyssinian Baptist Church, but the church paid all transportation costs ($1,000). It also spent $800 for new clothes for about a third of the children...
...father was a Russian Jew who loved this country because it gave him a chance to live like a decent human" being. I was blessed with a mother who knew no boundaries of race or religion, especially when other people were in trouble. My grammar-school and high-school teachers taught me to love good sportsmanship. They taught what they were, even more than what they knew...
...Master Race. It is a sadly beaten and demoralized army that leaves dead generals on the battlefield. East of Minsk, among 5,000 enemy dead,, the Russians found a corpse in a general's uniform...
...reasons for this sudden flowering are two : 1 ) retailers, cramped by wartime shortages, are stocking practically any thing; 2) small record companies, formerly devoted to such specialties as race songs or Elizabethan madrigals, have taken advantage of the Petrillo feud with Victor and Columbia (TIME, Dec. 6, 1943, et ante} to enter the popular field...