Word: booker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Negro Mitchell got his chance when Negro De Priest's white Democratic op ponent in Chicago's Black Belt died during the campaign and Mr. Mitchell was named in his place. A native of Alabama, Arthur Mitchell went to Tuskegee Institute, served as the late great Booker T. Washington's office boy, became a Washington, D. C. lawyer. He married a Negro woman who operates a Government accounting machine. They put their boy through the University of Michigan. The Mitchells moved to Chicago in 1928, there working for the G. O. P. and Herbert Hoover...
...Booker T. Washington stands at Tuskegee. Minstrels sing spirituals. The pageant becomes modern Harlem medley. Irene Castle McLaughlin explains her old-time dances, the "Bunny Hug," the "Hesitation," the ''Maxine." A chorus dances them. Orchestra Leader Noble Sissle recalls the War with his ''On Patrol in No Man's Land." Bill Robinson does a tap dance, brings down the house, encores again and again. W. C. Handy leads his "St. Louis Blues." All 5,000 voices break into a tremendous chant...
...GEORGE F. BOOKER...
...Negro children may be smar," said the late famed Negro Booker T. Washington, "but the white people of the South compliment them too much when they think they can learn in four months as much as white children can in nine...
...famed waxworks at Coney Island (N. Y.), funpark, figures of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, James John Walker, Leon Trotsky, John Joseph Pershing, Gaius Julius Caesar, Decimus Junius Brutus, Jean Paul Marat & tub, Henry VIII, Mr. & Mrs. Tom Thumb were melted out of existence. Others who suffered: George Washington (broken nose), Booker Taliaferro Washington (complexion blackened), Charlotte Corday (loss of eyes), Marie Antoinette (decapitated). A fireman was injured, a dog shot, a cat burned to death. Rescued were Watchman Conrad Golly and eight Japanese billiardists...