Word: racially
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Principal Robert Russa Moton, Organizer Holsey is well able to handle his work. He has written numerous articles on the Negro in business. He also wrote "Learning How to be Black" for the American Mercury. Although in this essay he said, "At fifteen, I was fully conscious of the racial difference, and while I was sullen and resentful in my soul, I was beaten and knew it," his interest and perseverance in his work show no passive defeatism. When not at work, he likes dancing, theatres. Now in Manhattan, he acclaims The Green Pastures, recalls King Dodo, seen 35 years...
...memory of his services to Africans; go thence to Antwerp, Brussels, The Hague, Amsterdam, Paris, Hamburg, Cologne, Berlin, Vienna and back to Paris by way of Switzerland. Unlike many a Negro musical organization the Hampton Choir can claim distinction for its singing of classical as well as of racial music. An ambitious list of classical choruses will be combined with spirituals on the European programs arranged by Negro R. Nathaniel Dett, smart, sophisticated leader of the choir...
...defiance of Webster, many a U.S. publication still spells Negro with a small "n," capitalizes all other races. Long has the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People crusaded for orthographical' equality, openly resented what it called petty discrimination against its racial dignity...
Last week, prompted by Tuskegee Institute's Robert Russa Moton, the foremost newspaper in the land, august New York Times, announced that it would make the typographical change from n to N "as an act in recognition of racial self-respect for those who have been for generations in 'the lower case...
...voiced Amos is Freeman F. Gosden, 31, native of Richmond, Va. He is a tall, erect blonde with tight, wavy hair, a broad brow and wide-set eyes. He was raised with a Negro "mammy" and a Negro playmate from whom he gained much of his extraordinary knowledge of racial peculiarities. Aged 10, he dove into Annette Kellerman's tank. Aged 12, he held eggs for the magician Thurston. For a year he went to military school in Atlanta. During the War he served in the Navy, then became a traveling tobacco salesman. Returning to Richmond...