Word: racially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Artistry bowed before racial prejudice again this week, right here in Boston, too, in a manner reminiscent of the Affaire Marian Anderson of two years ago. Those of you who heard Frankic Newton's broadcast last Sunday remember the sensitive guitar strummings and down to earth blues singing by Joshua White. Josh White accompanied Libby Hofman, who learned to sing the blues from him, over at the Balinese Room of the Somerset this past week. He has produced three fine albums, devoted especially to his songs, but a musician of his accomplishments is just another Negro to the innkeepers...
...mere two months after Pearl Harbor that he started preparing a "Yellow Paper." The damage was done, but Martin, in a confidential way, wanted to tell us that the Japs were a menace. Did he ever question Coughlin about his well-organized attempt to stir up racial hatred and internal dissension --undoubtedly the best attempt in the last 75 years? No. Instead he shared platforms with many of Coughlin's stalwart fascist supporters. Did he ever come out with his promised exposure of a plot by Italian Fascists? Never, but he excused himself nobly with the trite phrase that...
...represent German imperialism. The broader abstractions of injustice, inhumanity, of greed and lust--these are the universal qualities of totalitarianism as Hitler practices it. None of these playwrights have been able to see beyond the Nazi uniform. They offer only a dramatic restatement of newspaper headline ideas on democracy, racial problems and totalitarianism...
Twenty-five delegates from the College will attend a Student Conference at the Boston Young Women's Christian Association today and tomorrow to discuss such questions as post-war reconstruction, problems of racial and religious minorities, and international relations...
...decided that a petition to the President will be circulated throughout the University decrying the lack of racial unity and urging the President to support anti-lynching legislation...