Word: racially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These mapmakers, our leaders, have blinded themselves to racial issues. Using the archaic pattern of segregation, they have interposed it upon all problems in their search for solutions. Although medical and chemical research has proven that the blood of Negroes does not in the least differ from that of whites, the Red Cross continues to set it apart from "regular" blood. Although men in the Army, as human beings, react similarly to given stimuli, the War Department insists upon segregating Negroes from whites...
...family life. The other road leads to the development of the Negro within his own sphere. The latter would mean the serious organization of the Negro culture on a plane with that of other races. Segregation, if you like, but for development--not as a care-all for diseased racial relations...
Within this framework, says Author Allen, will be action "deep in implication." Subthemes will concern the effects of revenge as a racial policy, "the sentimental tradition that we are a merciful and kindly people," the acts of savagery that may arise out of "infantile compulsions." But basic to all will be the idea that the first Americans were neither revolutionaries nor reorganizers. They were "disinherited," and "for the first time in memorized history man was free to act entirely on his own responsibility...
While the Negro in the Army is the victim of racial prejudice and discrimination, he is, at least, a participant in the war effort; he is expending some energy against Fascism. But, paradoxically, on the labor front, the Negro is not even given the satisfaction of being in the fight, no matter what prejudices he may meet. He has been barred, generally, from war work...
...beginnings, but they are only beginnings. Ordnance plants and the machine tool industries have not yet erased the color line. The Committee on Fair Employment Practice is beginning to aid in the placement and training of the Negro by issuing directives to war industries requesting specific action relative to racial employment patterns. This government agency is dealing with unions in which discriminatory practices have been reported. But the Committee itself is still in a development stage...