Word: darktowns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Almost pure white was the appearance of the Negro chosen last week to head the Republicans' darktown drive in the East. He was Francis Ellis Rivers, son of the last Negro member of the Tennessee Legislature. He graduated from Yale (Class of 1915) with a Phi Beta Kappa, won a lieutenant's commission during the War, got a degree from Columbia University's Law School, has sat in the New York Legislature. Able and up-to-date Republican Rivers promptly adopted a brain trust including Charles E. Mitchell, onetime Minister to Liberia, Oliver Randolph, onetime member...
That a Negroid nation should be menaced by spectacular Dictator Benito Mussolini highly excited the world's Negroes last week. Not only Harlem but every other darktown was on the qui vive at news from Rome that for three nights running II Duce had sat up secretly with His Grand Council, contriving who knew what against the African Majesty of cocoa-butter-colored Haile Selassie I (Power of Trinity), Emperor of Abyssinia and Conquering Lion of Judah, whose somewhat Jewish features support his boast of descent from Biblical King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. Clarioned the Negro...
...only cost him $1,000. Magniloquently, Henry gives his patient wife a thousand, his gambling brother-in-law another thousand, his son still another (no one in the cast had seemed fazed when it was announced that his son's little fiancee was pregnant). "And Henry," the darktown financier addresses himself, "hyeah's seven thousan...
...present-day Sunday newspapers. A whole chapter is devoted to a discussion of that much overrated firm of Currier & lves. From the thousands of different subjects the author weeds out a few that have some real merit and justly decries the present fancy for "Little Ellen"s and the "Darktown" series. The auction prices which be quotes for some of them are truly astonishing...