Word: racially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...riot was not planned; was not inspired by enemy agents; resulted from smoldering racial tension. It was touched off by a rumor that a Negro woman and her child had been killed. "Irresponsible" white and Negro youths caused most of the casualties and property damage...
...obvious facts, the report added a harsh indictment: prime responsibility for the riot lay at the door of the Negro leaders and the Negro press. Said the report: "Perhaps tension in Detroit is the positive exhortation by many so-called Negro leaders to be militant in the struggle for racial equality. . . . [Negro] newspapers repeatedly charge that there is no more democracy here than in Hitler's Europe or in Japan . . . the obvious purpose of which is to drive home to Negro readers the alleged fact of their servitude and to arouse a belligerent reaction...
...Dispatch: "The country has been informed of certain factors that Governor Kelly's committee hasn't deigned to mention: that the old, discredited Ku Klux Klan is operating in Detroit; that wartime industry has brought to the city numerous white workers from the South who have deep racial feelings; that housing conditions are bad; that Detroit is a fertile field for crackpots and agitators of all kinds, like the sinister Gerald L. K. Smith . . . that new employment opportunities, as well as the general ferment of ideas caused by the war, have given the Negroes greater economic power...
...always, he took a few swings at certain Republicans: "The Republican Party must completely forsake the tempting notion that it can win by the amalgamation of the dissident groups in America -the narrow nationalists, the economically selfish . . . above all, the religious and racial bigots. In other words, we Republicans must take the affirmative, eschew the negative...
...Line. Before Pearl Harbor U.S. fascism was blatant and aggressive. Federal agents and public hostility have driven it to cover. So today's techniques are largely confined to whispering campaigns in industrial centers, promotion of racial violence, draft dodging, food hoarding, agitation for "democratic" opposition to the Administration. The objective, says Carlson, is to sabotage "with every means at their command, a quick Allied victory ... to ,prolong the conflict in order to intensify . . . work of dissension...