Word: racially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suggest a petition similar to that of the John Reed Society advocating inter-racial army units to be sponsored by the Student Council, the representative of the whole student body. Lionel Kunst...
...petition to President Roosevelt, asking that an inter-racial unit be established in the United States Army, has been distributed to all the House dining halls by the John Reed Society, it was announced last night...
Supported by many national institutions for racial tolerance, the petition, sponsored here by the John Reed Society, is being sent from other colleges and universities as well. The message is to be from the students to the President, not from the sponsor, the group declared...
...becoming increasingly clear that racial discrimination is much more than a subject for speeches and learned essays. It is no longer a regional or even a national problem, but is rather international in its importance. The impact of the war, with its struggle between ideologies diametrically opposed with regard to race, makes racial discrimination in America a gross paradox. And more than this is the cold fact that we must make full use of our manpower if we are to meet fully the requirements...
...view of these facts, the John Reed society has opened a new campaign at Harvard to get support for the proposed Army volunteer inter-racial unit a unit to be made up of men who have expressed their willingness to serve in a mixed unit. This is an especially decisive moment for such a campaign, since many men are preparing for entrance into the armed forces now or in the near future. It is they who, with other men from all, over the country, can do much to put into operation now something highly expressing our democratic faith. Samuel Stuart...