Word: racially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Surely your vast and literate reading public has more to think about than the feudalistic, reactionary statements of a few Southern Senators. While American troops are fighting for an equivalent world of four freedoms, certain Southern statesmen wage a ceaseless battle for their world of poll taxes, racial intolerance, lynchings and indiscriminate mockery of the Chief Executive. Why don't the Southern Senators secede from their party? If they did, at least they would no longer stigmatize the remaining Democrats with their cant, spurious oratory and hypocrisy...
Prime mover against this unchristian hoodlumism was a Methodist, Dr. Allen E. Claxton of the Broadway Temple. He organized an interfaith (Christian and Jewish) group, got 90% of Washington Heights Protestant pastors to preach Sunday sermons against antiSemitism, carry on a day-by-day agitation for religious and racial tolerance. Recognizing that anti-Semitism is not wholly a one-sided matter, the rabbis in the group will also preach to their Jewish congregations on tolerance. Children will receive special instruction at Sunday schools and recreation centers...
...from his current engagement at Boston's Tic-Toc to appear over. Harvard's Crimson Network this evening at 8 o'clock. Henderson, with a newly-recruited, colored and white band, has been touring the country, and recently caused a furore in the South because of the band's racial equality...
...find that the California American Legion is promoting a racial purge. I'm putting it mildly when I say it makes our blood boil. . . . We shall fight this injustice, intolerance and un-Americanism at home! We will not break faith with those who died. . . . We have fought the Japanese and are recuperating to fight again. We can endure the hell of battle, but we are resolved not to be sold out at home...
Witches' Broth. Private Borchers' letter landed plop in the midst of the West's most violent racial hysteria since "Yellow Peril" pioneer days. The 112,000 U.S. Japanese evacuated from the West Coast had become the object of hatred more intense than the anti-German-American feeling of World War I. The U.S. mortally hates and fears the Jap; but the furiously boiling stew had many other ingredients. Professional patriots, demagogues and sensational newspapers, led by the Hearst press, were vigorously stirring the witches' broth...