Word: segregationism
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The traditional War Department policy of segregation has done nothing except further divide the Negro soldier from his white comrade-in-arms; it has divided the races spiritually as well as physically. Although only a token in its beginnings, the mixed regiment would offset the danger to national morale and...
The smoldering bitterness of U.S. Negroes against segregation in the services flared into flame again last week. This time the fuel was laid by respected onetime Federal Judge William H. Hastie, dean of Howard University Law School. Explaining this week why he had resigned as Negro civilian aide to the...
In a new round in the three-year-old fencing match between the D.A.R. and colored Contralto Marian Anderson, the D.A.R.ters who had finally asked her to sing in Washington's Constitution Hall got an acceptance with provisos: that there be no audience segregation, that she be allowed to...
The segregation of the colored race isn't the question in this case at all. I am not trying to set myself up to judge whether that is right or wrong. All I know is that there is accepted segregation, and when the Hayes woman refused to abide by...
Trouble came in the irresponsible phrases of the excitable, dissatisfied Negro press. For months Negro editors pointedly ignored the Tuskegee flying school. When they could no longer ignore it, they poured out tirades against "Uncle Toms"-the Negroes who were willing to be in Negro units. One member of the...