Sentences with phrase «against negroes»

Mississippi State has won outright or shared (with Kentucky in 1962) the Southeastern Conference championship three years in a row, but its splendid qualifications and Coach Babe McCarthy's frequent pleas never got the team into the NCAA tournament because of a Mississippi policy prohibiting athletic competition against Negroes.

«You have been talking for weeks now about the wrongdoings of Catholics against Protestants in 16th and 17th century Europe,» I continued, raising my voice even higher, «but you've said absolutely nothing about the monstrous acts of violence by White Protestants against Negroes in the American South today in 1961!»

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Priests, ministers, and rabbis all marched arm in arm to protest against the brutality and to demonstrate for the right of Negroes to vote.

Eaton abruptly dropped the 14 black athletes from the team on Oct. 17, after, he says, they took part in a demonstration against Mormon racial policies, which exclude Negroes from the priesthood of the Mormon Church.

Game Changer explores a historical milestone: On March 12, 1944, members of the white Duke University Medical School team played a secret, illegal game against a black team from the North Carolina College of Negroes in segregated North Carolina.

He also took advantage of the country's prejudice against blacks and immigrants by printing that marijuana - crazed negroes were raping white women and by painting pictures of lazy, pot - smoking Mexicans.