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BROADCAST ON WNYC TODAY IN…
1967: Mayor John Lindsay and others speak at a memorial service for Apollo 1 Astronauts Virgil Grissom, Edward White, and Roger Chaffee.
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November 8, 1949
John Foster Dulles, following his defeat to Herbert Lehman for the U.S. Senate from New York. Governor Dewey appointed Dulles to the Senate on July 7, 1949, to fill the vacancy created when Democrat Robert F. Wagner resigned. Dulles served until November 8, 1949. He lost the special Senate election to Democrat Herbert Lehman.(WNYC Archive Collections)
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June 10, 1939
Negro News and Views
"America must be alert to the doctrines of racism which are at present being used by the countries influenced by the Nazi government and philosophy as an instrument for political and persecutory aims, spread into this country, said the Reverend John Lafarge, S. J., associate editor of the magazine America and a leader of the Catholic interracial movement, in a brief talk on the National Urban League's Negro News and Views program broadcast over station WNYC, New York recently.
"Racism," Father La Farge explained, "already has a foothold in America. During the two or three decades that immediately preceded the War of Secession, and shortly after that event, racist theories singularly like those now being circulated by the Nazis were propagated in this country. They were used to justify chattel slavery; and later to justify political and legal discriminations against the Negro. The influence of the American racist doctrines has persisted into our day. Some of them were revived on the floor of the Senate during the filibuster of the Wagner-Van Nuys anti-lynching bill."
Source: "Says Seeds of Racism Exist in Treatment of Negro Citizens," Opportunity, July, 1939, pg. 215.
Note: John LaFarge, Jr., S.J. (1880–1963) was an American Jesuit priest known for his activism against racism and anti-Semitism.
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