Word: segregationism
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For 17 years, Graves's column, "This Morning," had the Age-Herald's Page One, Column One spot. He was stoutly in favor of Southern chivalry, Birmingham-made steel, free enterprise, John Temple Graves II and segregation of Negroes. A round-faced, goggle-eyed Georgian of 53, Graves...
New York Herald Tribune sport editor, Stanley ("Coach") Woodward, threw the first brick. Wrote he: ". . . it is doubtful that any Negro will compete ... in view of the fact that he will have to travel to the scene in Jim Crow day coaches, and can expect nothing on arrival except segregation...
Harold Ickes made Hastie an assistant solicitor in the Interior Department. In 1937 Franklin Roosevelt named him U.S. District Judge in the Virgin Islands, the first Negro ever to sit on the Federal bench. As civilian aide to War Secretary Stimson in 1941, William Hastie pushed and prodded for Negro...
Though fully aware of her theatrical inexperience, Novelist Lillian Smith decided to dramatize Strange Fruit herself for fear that an "outside dramatist" would misrepresent the book. Says she: "I knew it would have been easy to make a racial Romeo and Juliet out of it ... I wanted a panoramic picture...
The American paradox of political democracy accompanied by discrimination against minorities was sharply criticized by Embree. In protesting against the segregation of Negro soldiers, he called attention to the fact that "we have set up a dual system of armies to defend a unified democracy."