Word: racially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moved with ease among the statesmen of the world. And, though he was not a politician's idea of a politician, he had done an even better job of governing his country. He had taken a nation of two cultures, a land often torn by racial strife, and held it together, for its own good...
...concept of liberty was always directed outward; it meant the right to be German, only German and nothing else and nothing beyond that. It was a concept of protest, of self-centered defense against everything that tended to limit and restrict national egotism. . . . The German idea of liberty is racial and anti-European; it is always very near the barbaric if it does not actually erupt into open and declared barbarism, as in our days...
...educators, called Helen Bannerman's 46-year-old child's classic "an undesirable book. . . . These drawings create a distorted and ugly picture that becomes fixed in the white child's imagination." In Manhattan the Interschool Conference of Youthbuilder Clubs joined the Sambo-hunt because it "disseminates racial and religious prejudices...
...some whites, refusing to be comforted, had drawn up a racial restriction covenant among themselves. For seven years they had tried to sell it to the other whites, but failed. Then they went to court...
Though fully aware of her theatrical inexperience, Novelist Lillian Smith decided to dramatize Strange Fruit herself for fear that an "outside dramatist" would misrepresent the book. Says she: "I knew it would have been easy to make a racial Romeo and Juliet out of it ... I wanted a panoramic picture of human beings-white and colored-trapped by the whole mechanism of segregation. I broke a great many rules but I knew what rules I was breaking . . . I'm proud of it ... I wouldn't change a word...