Word: second-class
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First they organized a Tram Fare Enhancement Resistance Committee, told passengers not to pay their fares, and beat up those who did. Next they swarmed into the trams, burned the seat cushions of the first-class section, and hurled second-class passengers into the streets. But the drivers kept on going. So the Communists pelted them and their passengers with bricks, bottles and Indian Communism's favorite weapon-bulbs filled with nitric acid...
...Make a Deal?" On a lucky day, an organ grinder may make as much as 20 pesos from such notoriously open-handed patrons as drunks, lovers and tourists. But his steadiest customers are the poor. When the shoeshiner's family takes a trip on the second-class bus, the cilindrero plays Las Golondrinas at the sendoff. He performs at dances for those who cannot afford to hire mariachis or fancy bands. When at midafternoon he shuffles into the big patio of a working-class tenement, children shriek, dogs bark, chickens scurry around, and women drop their housework to listen...
...take the privilege to offer two minor [criticisms]? The estimate of Booker Washington is only partly correct. In the beginning of his work he labored in such a limited field that he had to accept, for the time being, second-class citizenship. But that time passed, and there is no longer any reason for the Negro to continue in the Washington pattern. The other matter is the failure of your investigators to discover the "Deep South." I could lead you there where you would not recognize it as what we like to call democratic America. But these are very small...
...Claverly or the House proper, and the parietal rules should be equalized too. Proctors ought to be replaced by resident tutors, for House residents should enjoy no privileges deprived of their Claverly counterparts. Claverly men are first-class Harvard students, and it is unfair to hobble them with second-class citizenship...
...Administration and Congress are pledged to eliminate second-class citizenship. Rather than rely on Presidential pleas or reversed Court decisions, they should present their local constituents with the strong bill necessary to end discrimination in the District of Columbia...