Word: racially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Believing that the newspaper should contribute to the well-being of the community, Edstrom is hopeful that they can do a "great deal" towards racial tolerance, and, more specifically, to help stamp out discrimination against the Negro...
...first world war was the partial suicide for the western nations," Embree declared. "This war is the beginning of a new era," he concluded, in stressing the numerical superiority of the world's colored peoples and the need for better understanding between different racial groups...
...time is not ripe for the rapid extension of the union shop. His reason: labor leadership is "not competent to use this great power wisely." Moreover, because it is a monopoly power, Ruml argues that the union shop must inevitably lead to Government regulation of unions to bar racial discrimination, excessive production costs through "feather bedding," etc. Until "the majority of labor leaders . . . are willing to accept such regulations as the price of the union shop ... too much haste [in extending it] would cause bitter, wasteful and unnecessary strife...
There were dozens of instances of friendliness: Ray Sato, a 27-year-old Nisei from Hood River, focal point of Oregon racial intolerance, received 30 reassuring letters from former neighbors when he decided to go home. When Bruce McGill, a wealthy Sierra Madre (Calif.) businessman, ran an anti-Japanese newspaper advertisement, he found himself virtually ostracized by other citizens, who promptly ran a second ad, welcoming evacuees...
Langston Hughes, noted American Negro poet, stressed the still urgent need for a solution to the current problem of racial oppression in this country, in an address presented at Agassiz Hall Tuesday night...