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Bigotry See also Anti-Semitism. Beaumanoir, Sir Lucas de prejudiced ascetic; Grand Master of Templars. [Br. Lit.: Ivanhoe] middle-aged bigot in television series. [TV: “All in the Family” in Terrace, I, 47–48] used as symbolic threat by Ku Klux Klan. [Am. Hist.: Jobes, 387] (1889–1945) German dictator; his New Order excluded non-Aryans, e.g., Jews, Slavs. [Ger. Hist.: Hitler] Negro stereotype popularized by 19th-century minstrel shows. [Am. Hist.: Van Doren, 138] ultra-conservative, anti-Communist U.S. organization founded in 1958. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 1421] anti-Negro terrorist organization, started in southern U.S. [Am. Hist.: Allen, 46–49] Himmler’s adoption/breeding scheme to produce master race. [Ger. Hist.: Hitler, 1046] study of race problem in South. [Am. Lit.: Light in August] required military intervention to desegregate schools (1957–1958). [Am. Hist.: Van Doren, 556–557] pictures underprivileged Negro as either churchgoer or criminal. [Am. Lit.: Native Son, Magill I, 643–645] Nazionalsozialist; rabid anti-Semite member of Hitler’s party. [Ger. Hist.: Shirer] partially fulfilled Nazification of Europe. [Eur. Hist.: Hitler, 935, 1055] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The influence which the bigotry of one female,[6] the petulance of another,[7] and the cabals of a third,[8] had in the contemporary policy, ferments, and pacifications, of a considerable part of Europe, are topics that have been too often descanted upon not to be generally known. The hours wore on; --Ahab now shut up within his cabin; anon, pacing the deck, with the same intense bigotry of purpose in his aspect. ``Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed |
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