Word: whitely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Slumped in a maximum security cell in Mississippi's State Penitentiary, awaiting execution for the murder of a white woman in 1954, Robert Lee Goldsby, 32, a Negro, has one abiding concern: saving his skin. Last week the onetime lathe operator, whose death has been postponed five times in the past four years, won yet another legal delay, while simultaneously (and unwittingly) nudging forward the cause of Negro civil rights in the Deep South. Opening its fall term, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review -and thereby affirmed-last January's far-reaching decision of the Fifth...
...Hello-have you sold your farm yet?" In Kenya last week, this was the standard greeting whenever white settlers met. Behind it lay the bitterest blow that Kenya's settlers have yet suffered: a Kenya government proposal to open up to Africans and Asians the immensely fertile 12,700 sq. mi. of the British colony's "White Highlands...
...White Highlands are "white" because since 1939 only Kenya's 60,000 Europeans have been allowed to lease farms there-a state of affairs that has constituted a perennial political and psychological affront to the colony's 6,000,000 Africans. The new plan might ease the affront, but even its proponents did not argue that it would admit more than a sprinkling of non-Europeans into the Highlands. As the plan now stands, an African farmer who wanted to move into the Highlands would first have to get financing, then find a European farmer who was willing...
Mild as it was, the new plan pleased no one. Said Group Captain Leslie Briggs, hard-shell leader of the far-right, pure-white United Party: "This is dishonest and dangerous-we would have no right to stop a convicted Mau Mau gangster farming next door to us." With equal vehemence, African Nationalist Leader Tom Mboya denounced the proposals as falling far short of the sweeping redistribution of White Highlands acreage demanded by Africans. Even members of the moderate New Kenya Party, led by Michael Blundell, Kenya's most progressive white politician, raised the outcry that the plan...
...week's end, in a naked bid for the support of the New Kenya Party, the government announced that henceforth African land boards would no longer be allowed to bar land sales to white farmers on racial grounds. And if it chose, the government could almost certainly push its new plan for the Highlands through Kenya's Legislative Council. But in the process, it might well increase rather than diminish the tension between Kenya's races. Departing Kenya Governor Sir Evelyn Baring, mused the London Times, had handed to his successor, Sir Patrick Renison, "a baton . . . that...