Word: racially
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...insinuations of racial and religious intolerance made concerning me are based on the fact that I joined the Ku Klux Klan about 15 years ago. I did join the Klan. I later resigned. I never rejoined. What appeared then, or what appears now, on the records of the organization, I do not know...
...Federal aid for local schools. South Carolina's Johnston: "We should be as jealous of individual liberty in education as we are of individual liberty in religion. . . . South Carolina will always demand its right to segregate the whites and the blacks. . . . We would not condone anything which approaches racial equality." North Carolina's Hoey: "In my State the municipalities accepted State funds and the burden of education gradually shifted to the State. The same thing will happen in the Federal Government." Maine's Barrows: "I most certainly fear control of education by the Federal Government. . . ." Only dissenter...
...from the University of Berlin, has studied in Palestine's Tel Aviv and at the Pittsburgh Bible Institute. He believes that black Jews are descended from Jacob, white from Esau, twin sons of Isaac, and that he in particular is of the Tribe of Judah since he bears racial markings mentioned in the Bible-a gap between his upper front teeth, big toes that overlap his foretoes. Although only 600 Harlemites go to Rabbi Matthew's synagog, he believes the Harlem Jewish community numbers some 3,500, basing his figures on hospital records of circumcised Negroes. Currently another...
Both Negro Author Turpin and Negro Author Hurston paint their racial pictures, with little shading, in glistening blacks and lurid tans. But to white readers who object to their violent brushwork they might truthfully reply: Negro life is violent. Author Turpin's story traces the fortunes of a Negro family from its uprooting in the Civil War to its rootless present. Martha, daughter of a plantation slave, died too soon to prevent her daughter from growing up in a bawdy house. Her granddaughter, starting off as a respectable farmer's wife, ended up on the Harlem stage, mothered...
Prospectus for Dr. Sharp's School for Maturates contains no customary scholastic rules. But no student may be under 70. Classes will be held from 1130 p. m. to 4. There will be no entrance examinations, tuition, compulsory attendance, class or racial distinctions. Classrooms are on the ground-floor to obviate stair-climbing for the incapacitated. Upstairs are living quarters for those unable to go back & forth. Food costs will be shared. Dr. Sharp's widowed sister, Mrs. Jean Torson, will act as housemother. What courses will evolve remains largely a matter of what subjects interest the oldsters...