Word: racial
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hardly aware, which the wisest doctor and the most discerning priest would need years to explore before they could half understand it. The attachment was a pitiable thing, the horrible confusion of a sexually uneducated boy and a socially uneducated girl with greed and social position and an uncertain racial standard and a kind of weird search for happiness. . . . Apparently his family lacked both sympathetic wisdom and practical judgment. But the lawyers were not emotionally involved. They could have kept their heads, and if they were any good they could and would have talked like a Dutch uncle to these...
...Straton may think about it, considerable moral courage is necessary for facing a negro audience with such bald statements, especially in race-crazed Detroit. Moreover, Mr. Darrow's attitude toward the negro problem could well be brought to the attention of fire-eating white supremacists and sentimental advocates of racial equality. Hysterical pity for the down trodden negro from one kind of idealist, and blind recrimination of the black race from another, are equally futile. Any constructive settlement for this problem can only come from just such cool consideration of the peculiar necessities arising from the drugging influence of recent...
Dissatisfaction among negroes assumed a dangerous tinge in the negro labor convention at Chicago, which was shot through with communist sentiment. Every large industrial city is facing an increase in inter-racial unpleasantness due to overcrowding. In negro districts. In the midst of this gradually increasing tension, Mr. Darrow's speech can be interpreted as a hopeful incident in two ways: one, that his audience heard him quietly, and another, that dispassionate appraisal of the situation is still possible...
...Negro is essentially a worker-proletariat, as we would call it-suffering all the abuses of the working class in general, but in addition to that, racial abuses, racial discrimination, political disfranchisement and other racial oppression...
Race Equality. Viscount Willingdon, sometime Governor of Bombay and Madras declared roundly before the Congress that the white man must let down the color bar to other races, in order to avoid an inter-racial war in the future. Said he: "Providence long ago placed the white man in a position of trusteeship . . . Now his colored wards have grown up . . . He can no longer dominate them . . . He must treat all colored men in a spirit of absolute equality . . . A clash of races would be the ghastliest tragedy in history...