Word: racism
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Many of Burns' past documentaries have examined well-covered subjects (the Civil War, baseball) to draw passionate conclusions that few people would disagree with (war is terrible, racism is evil). Johnson is a less obvious subject and in some ways more complicated. Blackness is about race, even more blatantly than Baseball or Jazz, and yet Johnson was not self-consciously a racial hero. He would not kowtow to racists, but he also rebuffed Tuskegee Institute president Booker T. Washington and other black community leaders who chided him for fraternizing with whites...
GERALD A. REYNOLDS, newly appointed chairman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, describing his experiences with racism...
...Whenever a black student comes to Harvard, you’re going to be asked to talk about race and racism,” he says. “And if you don’t study that stuff, you don’t know anything about it—even if you are black...
Beside him, Terry and Trager are similarly absorbed with race relations. Trager, a vocal conservative, asks Terry, a former president of the Black Men’s Forum, about the existence of racism...
...voting age blacks were registered, and this 5 percent faced extreme harassment when they sought to exercise their right. By focusing on one of the most bigoted and brutal states in America, student activists shocked the country into paying attention. They used Mississippi to illustrate the worst that racism was capable of. What our parents did in Mississippi, we can do in the suburbs and rural areas where Wal-Mart is rapidly expanding its hold...