Word: racially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week St. Louis' Archbishop Joseph Elmer Ritter ripped down this racial bar. He announced that Negro children could attend any diocesan school within their parishes. More than 700 white Catholic parents banded together to protest the seating of Negroes next to their children. They knocked at the Archbishop's door; he would not see them. They threatened court action; they would hire a lawyer and ask for an injunction against the Archbishop...
Sued: the Rev. Dr. Guy Emery Shipler and The Churchman magazine (editor: Dr. Shipler); for $105,000, by a publicity firm which charged breach of contract. Complaint: the firm never got the commissions due it for plugging a campaign to promote good will among religious and racial groups. Further complaint: Campaigner Shipler demanded the firing of one publicity worker "on religious grounds...
...could support itself; of Volta Redonda, South America's biggest steel mill, and of the continent's fastest growing industrial city at São Paulo. Drawing on the studies of Brazil's social anthropologist, Gilberto Freyre, he shows that "there is less racial discrimination in Brazil than in any other country in the world." By inheritance, says Tavares, the Brazilians, with a rich land, a million unclaimed opportunities, and a unique cultural, religious & racial unity, are destined to be "the people of tomorrow...
...only they are left alone, Southerners like to say, they can take care of their own racial problems. Last week, in two isolated instances, the South was trying to make good the claim: ¶ Georgia's Department of Corrections, helped by the FBI, started new investi' gations into the killing last July 11 of eight Negro convicts at the Glynn County highway camp (TIME, July 28). A special grand jury had previously exonerated Warden H. G. Worth and the four guards who shot them. Meanwhile, the state acted to prevent a similar massacre; in Charlton County, it abolished...
Mississippi tried a new racial tactic. In last week's Democratic primaries, prospective voters could be required, under a state law passed last March, to swear their faith in "party principles." In Mississippi, Democratic party principles not only mean white supremacy, but include opposition to federal antilynching, anti-poll-tax and fair employment practices laws. The new law was frankly designed to keep Negroes from voting...