Tag: race
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Scientists Answer Hoke Smith’s Attack On Negroes
A rebuttal to this article from last week claiming that “the negro is the South’s drawback.” SCIENTISTS ANSWER HOKE SMITH’S ATTACK ON NEGROES: Produce Figures to Show Him Not Well Posted on Conditions in His Own State — Professor Boas Tells of the Race’s Achievements in Africa. (PDF) From September 24, 1911
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Baltimore Tries Drastic Plan Of Race Segregation
Well, this might be the most depressing and disgusting thing I’ve come across so far in these old articles. The city of Baltimore passed an ordinance that says: 1. That no negro may take up his residence in a block within the city limits of Baltimore wherein more than half the residents are white. 2.…
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Santa Claus’s Mistake
At first glance, this struck me as just a relic from an era when racial segregation was an intriguing idea (more on that topic will be posted Friday). But then I remembered that pretty much the same joke was used recently on The Office in an episode where Toby ends up stuck with a black…
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