Word: racially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Federal Council of Churches and also became bishop of the New York area, Methodism's most important diocese, where he succeeded Bishop Francis J. McConnell, another famed liberal. He has carried on McConnell's work. At the Methodist Hospital in Brooklyn, for example, he found no racial discrimination against patients but a rule excluding colored candidates from nursing school. After months of firm pressure from Oxnam, the hospital board repealed the rule...
...papers which did not print Sprigle found space to print a Northern Negro publisher's account of his own untroubled tour. And many more were likely to print a rebuttal to Sprigle by Hodding Carter, the able Mississippi editor who won a Pulitzer prize for his editorials on racial tolerance...
Says Deutsch: "I'm not a crusader. I'm just against evil things that don't have to be." Among them: racial bias, maltreatment of juvenile delinquents and the insane. In 1943 a story he never printed - but showed to the War Department for security clearance - ended the barbarous expedient of bringing some psychoneurotic veterans home from overseas in wire cages...
...brigadier general, the U.S. Army's first and only Negro general officer, and he took over the 4th Cavalry Brigade at Fort Riley, Kans. He was sent to Europe in 1942, won the Distinguished Service Medal for his work in inspecting Negro troops and easing explosive Army racial tensions. After the war he settled into the routine of peacetime Army life...
...freed men. When his talents and his viewpoint merged in The Birth of a Nation, a story of the Civil War, the Reconstruction and the first Ku Klux Klan, the cinema had its first "colossal." But on the heels of the picture came race riots and cries of racial bigotry...