Word: whites
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...start a bunkless college, Rice and his followers went to the place where the word came from-North Carolina's Buncombe County. There, on a mountainside near the village of Black Mountain, they rented for the college year a Y. M. C. A. summer-conference hotel, a huge white-columned building with a magnificent view of the Craggy Mountains across the Swannanoa Valley. First year, Black Mountain's teachers drew no pay. To help support the college, teachers and students ran a farm, did their own housework (except cooking and dishwashing...
Died. Mrs. Constance Willis Campbell, 32, wife of Negro Cartoonist Elmer Simms Campbell, who draws svelte white nudes; by her own hand (shooting), in Elmsford...
...beaten down from first to seventh place on the list of U. S. killers. Although doctors know all about the cause, a great deal about the cure of T. B., it is not yet conquered and still runs rampant in the slums of crowded cities. Hardest hit by the white plague is the black population, which loses annually about five citizens out of every 2,000 (general U. S. average: one out of every...
...University for Negroes (Washington, D. C. is the Negro Paris) a WPA grant of $600,000 to build a T. B. clinic and hospital. Heartened by this recognition, scholarly Dr. Numa Pompilius Garfield Adams, dean of Howard's medical school, promptly called a meeting of 50 black and white tuberculosis experts. Last week at Howard he welcomed the delegates to the First Annual Conference of Negro Tuberculosis workers...
...reception to its rulers in what it must have considered U. S. terms. The Daily Mirror's, lead article began: "The land of amazing parades saw its most astounding ever when the King and Queen drove through 600,000 whooping, cheering Americans to the White House." The crowds sang God Save the King in swing time, the Mirror reported, adding that Americans greeted the visitors with shouts of: "Hiya, King, what about a little hustle...