Word: sambo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME really wants to shed some tears, how about the banning of Little Black Sambo and Tom Sawyer in New York City schools by the ever race-conscious N.A.A.C.P...
...After protests from the N.A.A.C.P. and others, the New York City board of education dropped Helen Bannerman's Little Black Sambo (TIME, Dec. 24, 1945) and Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from its lists of books "approved" for use in New York City's elementary and junior high schools. Tom Sawyer passes the board's muster...
...word was said about slavery. Forrest, ill at ease amid hypocrisy, rose to say that if he hadn't thought he was fighting to keep his niggers, and other folks' niggers, he never would have gone to war in the first place. Forrest was interested in Sambo, not Ivanhoe. The sentiment was not pretty, but at least it was not fake conservatism...
...Driver John William George Samson, 57, known as "Sambo" to many of the boys, was experiencing a different kind of pride that night. Just a year before, the Chatham Traction Co. had given him a fine chiming clock in honor of 40 faithful years in their employ. As Samson mounted his double-decker bus last week, to take it once again over a run he knew as well as the back of his hand, he was looking forward to another company dinner the next night, at which he would rank as an acknowledged elder statesman among bus drivers...
Supposedly written in collaboration with Professor Henry S. Commager of Columbia, the book was attacked for its use of such phrases as "sambo" and "blacks...