... and guide the nonwhite masses- (Racial Unity 24). For some reason, this feeling of racial superiority was felt much stronger towards blacks. Thomas notes that before the sixteenth century the definition of black in English culture in The Oxford English Dictionary read: "Deeply stained with dirt; soiled, ... in jails were separated. Black and white patients in mental institutions, the blind and deaf, tubercular patients, and juvenile delinquents lived apart from one another. Blacks employed by textile factories could not work in the same room with whites, were forced to use separate entr...

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