Word: uppityness
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As a group, Southerners insisted that Negroes in uniform keep strictly to the Jim Crow laws. Crowded buses, where the races were forced to mingle, became the scene of ugly flare-ups. In some sections bus drivers toted guns. The South was prepared to back up its Jim Crow laws...
Along with problem dramas, A.N.T. has produced the current Broadway farce, Three's a Family and has gaily spoofed Strivers' Row, Harlem's uppity Park Avenue. Says A.N.T.: "When a race can laugh at its own foibles, it has really become civilized."
Everything is not entirely rosy in the nation's charity stores. Denver's 70-year-old Agnes Lewis, friend of a generation of Larimer Street down-&-outers, has been almost driven out of business by full employment. Most of her customers have gone uppity, and now insist upon...
It would be a prosperous Christmas. Throughout December, U.S. stores had been crowded as never before; sales topped those in 1941, when everyone had told himself it would be the last real Christmas for the duration. The people did not insist on luxuries, or on necessities ; they bought everything. With...
In Detroit, cash-heavy war workers are making a big splash, but mostly in noisy, smoky, gaudy places which look like overgrown Bierstuben. At the big Bowery Club trumpet-mouthed Martha Raye draws over 1,200 customers nightly to break house records. Almost all Detroit nightclub customers are factory workers...