Word: whitings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Local relief agencies in the South usually send clients only to A. M. A. members. Hence Southern Negro doctors, who do not belong to the A. M. A., are resentful about losing a large percentage of their black practice to white doctors...
What they saw on the tennis courts was equal to what has been seen in top-notch white-folks' tournaments this summer. Through the efforts of the A. T. A. directors, who are eager to show the snooty U. S. L. T. A. that Negroes can be developed into high-grade tennists, the colored race-especially its intelligentsia-has become extraordinarily tennis-conscious. In Negro colleges tennis is a major sport, exceeded in popularity only by football (50% of the students play tennis). Wealthy Negroes like Chicago's "Mother" Seames, a 70-year-old, 200-lb. tennis enthusiast...
More and more bitter did the board chairman become. Suddenly from Victoria Stables rang a most un-British sound: a revolver shot, then another. White-faced, a clerk ran to the street shouting: "Something terrible has happened." To a hospital in Aberdeen went Board Secretary William Macintosh, shot in the head, and Director Bailie W. McDougall Gordon, senior magistrate of Peterhead, shot in the leg. To jail went gun-toting Board Chairman Anderson...
Roosevelt in the White House...
Where not a white gull on white wing flies...