Word: racially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four of the 16 patients are Negroes, and nine of the twelve white soldiers hail from the South. There has not been one instance of racial friction since I have been here. We play cards together, borrow each other's books and stationery, bum each other's cigarets...
Says a Cambridge adage: "Banned in Boston is the trademark of a good book." Last fortnight Strange Fruit (TIME, March 20), Lillian Smith's controversial novel about Southern racial problems, miscegenation and lynching, joined the long list of Boston's hall-marked books.* A policeman had read some of it and was shocked. "The boldest indecent passages I have ever seen," said Boston's Police Commissioner Thomas F. Sullivan. The disturbing passages, he explained, were shown him by a father who had bought Strange Fruit as a present for his daughter in the WAVES. Said...
Certain activities along the Rio Grande last week suggested that Texas wages sometimes loom larger to Mexicans than Texas racial discrimination (TIME, Feb. 7). Word got about that Mexicans were sneaking across the Rio Grande, violating their own Government's embargo and taking jobs on undermanned Texas farms...
...Pseudopodia. In demand as a speaker, gifted with a whispery, well modulated voice, she began work with Southern church groups, also interviewed prospects for the Julius Rosenwald Fund,* changed her literary magazine to the politically conscious South Today, and began to put into practice the new credo of Southern racial reform...
...last month's American Magazine New York's Archbishop Francis Joseph Spellman wrote: "There have been many great changes at home since the war began. One . . . has been an increase in the prevalence of bigotry, evidenced by . . . race riots, assaults on groups and individuals because of racial and religious differences, desecration of synagogues and churches...