Word: racially
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...receives in an open fight. Opponents of his presidential candidacy only defeat their own ends by giving him a chance to hit back. A successful fight will not be directed against his governorship--he has done his gubernatorial duties too well. It must rather deal in obscure appeals to racial and religious prejudice; if it hopes to attract either vigorous denial or assent...
...fettle (see p. 29), other Negroes held a less riotous convention elsewhere in Harlem. These were the members of the fourth Pan-African Congress, who had gathered from the U. S., the West Indies, Germany, Japan, India, South America, Sierra Leone, Gold Coast, Nigeria, Liberia, South Africa, to discuss racial needs. Speeches were made, newspapers commented, resolutions were accepted and published. Speeches. Said Dr. Wilhelm Mensching of Petzen, Germany: "The fruits of love as outlined by Apostle Paul grow in the soul of the African." Said M. Dantes Bellegarde of Port-au-Prince, Haiti: "If this experiment of self-government...
Tribes to Citizens. The policy of disorganizing the more than 200 tribes and bands of Amerindians in the U. S. and treating their members individually, like any other racial group of U. S. citizens, was begun by Congress in 1871. The Government then formally refused to acknowledge or recognize any independent nation or tribe within U. S. boundaries. That put an end to treaties, but it was not retroactive. Land that had been acknowledged, in various of the 370 prior treaties made between the U. S. and the Indians, as belonging to tribes of Indians, was allotted to individual Indians...
...Detroit last week met the National Medical Association for its 32nd annual convention. It is the national organization of Negro physicians, surgeons, dentists and pharmacists. All Negro professional men do not belong to it; some hold aloof from racial associations. But most do belong, and to them, especially those who happen to trip against the bars of local sub-organizations of the American Medical Association, the National Medical Association is an invaluable agency of professional culture and public health...
...Islands are called Hawaiian on the maps and in the histories, the original Hawaiian stock constitutes less than 10% of the island population. The most recent official figures on Hawaii (the Federal Census of 1920) gave the Islands a population of 255,912. This population was divided into 13 racial groups, of which the Japanese, with 109,274 outnumbered any other single group by a ratio of about 4 to 1. The present population of the Islands is estimated at something more than 300,000, of whom more than 120,000 are Japanese...