Word: racially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Unitarian service Committee representative in Vienna sent as telegram from Geneva on July 20, which said in part: "Harvard student action meets terrible need Austrian universities. Situation Vienna students particularly catastrophic. . . . Committee of wronged students who during Hitler ear excluded from university for racial reasons and active participation resistance movement. This Komitee Der Geschaedigten Studenten has 1,500 members certified victims of Nazism. . . . These students now lacking resources are forced to earn livelihood on the side irrespective of extreme malnutrition and illnesses contracted during long confinement camps. . . . Many valuable students lacking physical strength to continue face giving up studies. Anticipated...
...telegram requesting that President Truman take immediate action against the racial violence of the last few weeks, was sent last night by the Harvard Liberal Union after its meeting and discussion of the subject in Phillips Brooks House...
...finally I came across three pages which lifted my feeling of despair. TIME'S Religion department assures me that there is still reason to hope. Methodist Pastor Safran has the courage to speak out against the . . . racial bigotry which we in the North practice. The Church of England actually has more applicants for religious training than it has vacancies. A fighting Protestant Irishman has gotten hard-bitten policemen to act like "gentlemen." Japanese Christians predict a tenfold increase in their ranks. And TIME says that "the greatest writing in human history has been religious writing. . . ." A wonderful department, indeed...
...John Safran's dismissal [TIME, July 1] take place in these United States of America . . . ? Surely "Christian America" would not countenance a man's dismissal simply because he dared to discuss racial tolerance and equality-or perhaps our category of "self-evident truths" no longer contains the clause that "all men are created equal...
...Quaker faith in good works, Thomas Jones decided to give his students community chores. A Nashville judge paroled young Negro offenders to Fisk "custody." Soon Fisk "internes" were running social centers in Nashville's tawdry red-light district, in rural Whiteville, in Indianapolis, had made case studies of racial tension in 67 cities. By 1944, local hostility had retreated enough for Fisk to hold an interracial institute at Nashville, with whites and Negroes sharing dormitories and dining rooms...