Word: racial
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sixty years since that time the elements that comprize the new stage have been slowly crystalizing. So long as the negro remained in the South, traditional submission to the status quo delayed any acute outcropping of racial ill feeling. But the World War uprooted the negro's traditional attitude toward his lot, and the exodus to the North began. Coming in even greater numbers to new homes in a new clime, the negro finds his absolute position better than before, but his relative position worse. The ties that held him in the South are cut asunder. His inferiority complex...
...spring and summer; and it [terrorism] is still in evidence ? perhaps to remain for some time to come. Most of the attacks were planned and directed by the same forces which were behind the early form of persecution. Some, it must be acknowledged, have been the product of racial instincts, hostile to Americans and everything American...
...Klux Klan. "If any organization, no matter what it chooses to be called, whether Ku Klux Klan or by any other name, raises the standard of racial and religious prejudice or attempts to make racial origins or religious beliefs the test of fitness for public office, it does violence to the spirit of American institutions and must be condemned by all those who believe as I do in American ideals...
...Appeals to racial, religious or class prejudice by minority organizations are opposed to the welfare of all peaceful and civilized communities...
...Chirol, onetime foreign Editor of The London Times and Royal Commissioner on Indian Public Service. His theme was The Reawakening of the Orient. Said he: " Never before has the white man stressed the color bar as he does today ? never before has the Orient denied his claim to racial superiority as it does today. . . . Hostility to all foreigners has never been so deliberately and insolently displayed as it is today...