Word: racially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...everyone knew, "civil rights" meant, largely, "Negro rights." The platform makers, headed by Pennsylvania's Senator Francis Myers, had hit, upon what they thought was the perfect compromise. They parroted the 1944 platform, affirmed the right of racial minorities "to live ... to work ... to vote." As for federal guarantee of those rights, they called upon Congress "to exert its full authority to the limit of its constitutional powers...
Hutchins gave approving pats on the head to the report's attacks on specialization and on racial, religious and economic discrimination in higher education. But for its "confusion" and its literary style (". . . reads like a Fourth-of-July oration in pedaguese . . . skirts the edge of illiteracy") Hutchins had only the back of his hand...
...most controversial section was a gabled compromise decorated with the principle of civil rights: "We have implemented our often-expressed belief that racial and religious minorities have the right to live, develop, and vote equally with all citizens." To this was appended a Southern balustrade: an affirmation of the right of individual states to make their own laws...
Like the Democratic Party itself, it was composed of the most diverse elements: Southerners (who dislike Truman because of his stand on racial equality), New Dealers (who think Truman has forsaken them) and big city bosses (who fear that Truman will be so badly beaten that they will lose control of local offices...
...President also got some advice. Mississippi's John Rankin came out of the President's office and suggested that the secessionist Dixiecrats might stay hitched if the Democratic platform went no further on civil rights than the generalizations of the 1944 plank -which proclaimed that "racial and religious minorities have the right to live, develop and vote equally with all citizens...