Word: racially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took an all-white jury at Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, just one hour and fifty-three minutes to acquit twenty-three out of twenty-five colored citizens charged with participation in "racial disorders" last February. It was a triumph for social justice, and a heartening indication of reconstruction by Southerners themselves. But in the mechanics of courtroom procedure, in the attitudes of both participant and spectator, and in the very conduct of the case, the incident revealed once again the weakness of jurisprudence below the Mason-Dixon: that before the bar two loyalties exist--one to justice, and another, even stronger...
...sense this conflict of loyalties which makes it so difficult to deal with even the best-intentioned of men when the racial conflict is in question," wrote Vincent Sheean in the New York Herald-Tribune last week. the acceptance of the social arrangement under a code of "white supremacy," then, went beyond the cranky rantings of Paul Bumpus, circuit Attorney General, whose pleas for hangings were on the grounds that "the trials at Nuernberg were not going to furnish enough victims," or Lynn Bomar, Tennessee's Commissioner of Safety, who raised violent objection to the addressing of Negro defendants...
...South, the stage is only embryonic. But only through such trials as these can the social system be changed and reconciled with the concepts of Western justice. Hundreds of lives may be lost in the struggle of flux. The sacrifice is unfortunate, but necessary. To deal with racial questions through alien agencies like Federal courts, as suggested by Sheean, would remove the very problems the South must solve in its self-education. Permanent change must come from within; the group must change itself.. Here is a beginning...
...Moriarty's decree, certain topics are forbidden in the club: no racial discussion (several club members are Jewish); no talk of concentration camps ("I don't want these kids to feel that the sins of their fathers are being visited on them"); no political arguments, except club affairs...
...actor, got into a wig and grease paint in Boston and made a little modern theatrical history by playing a white man's role opposite Star Elisabeth Bergner in The Duchess of Malfi. Critics' judgment: a success. In Wilmington, Del., history repeated itself: a theater manager disavowed racial prejudice but canceled The Duchess' engagement...