Word: racially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Informed of the controversy over the admittance of Negro students to Princeton University, I deem it imperative that you weigh the views of a Negro youth whose choice of a college was decidedly affected by racial barriers. I was born and bred in Princeton. The events of your university during the past decade are among the most intimate of my childhood memories. I saw your Bill Bonthron challenge Glenn Cunningham. I cheered for Le Van, Fairman, and Ceppi when the Bengals were invincible. I feel that I am just as much a son of Old Nassau as many...
This American version of the "rotten borough" is not entirely a racial issue. When Dies of Texas slinks into Congress on 12,000 votes, and Rankin of Mississippi warms his seat at the pleasure of a meagre 4,000 citizens, the problem is no longer confined to the Negro's position in the social structure of the country. When thirteen of the twenty-four chairmen and ranking members of the most important committees in the House of Representatives come from poll tax states the question has gone far beyond mere protection of the Black minority. When ten per cent...
...told FBI rounded up 84 Negroes in Chicago, four in Manhattan, with more to come in other northern and midwestern cities-cultist-puppets who, FBI believes, are jerked by the Japs to stir up racial trouble. Last week FBI began arraigning them on charges of sedition, pro-Japanese activities, draft dodging...
...Leave the sinking ship of Western civilization. It had reached its end: the Pacific. Beyond lies your friend: Japan, the lifeboat of racial love, made radiant by the star of the East, the Rising...
Such objections merely sidestep an issue which has become even more pressing since our entrance into the war. The "Princetonian" notes that "Japanese propagandists are capitalizing on American racial discrimination to nourish disunion at home and among our one thousand million colored allies. . . . It would be easier to deal with their charges if the kernel of truth contained in them were smaller." It is not only anomalous, but dangerous, to criticize British subjugation of the Indians, to scoff at Hitler's doctrine of blood and soil, while we continue blindly on our way, dealing with our own "burden" like imperialists...