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...Supervisor Gladys L. Catchings presumed that Sloane Maternity made no discrimination against Negroes. In her application, which she sent by mail, she did not mention that she was a Negress. But she did refer to her service at Freedman's Hospital and her studies at Tuskegee Institute, both well-known Negro institutions. Her application was accepted; she went to Manhattan; she registered, was assigned to duty. Then someone complained that her dark presence was obnoxious. Sloane Maternity ousted...
...forest, told them that the King of France had proclaimed three holidays every week for slaves, that an army was coming from France to make their masters obey. There was thunder in the sky above the woods, ". . . and, as if born of the darkness and storm, a giant Negress appeared in the midst of the crowded open space. A long knife gleamed wet in her upraised right hand, her naked body was streaked with rain." In August of 1793 Boukmann's rebellion started; a few days later it was over, the blacks had been beaten...
Perusing the Vienna Roman Catholic Church Gazette, His Holiness noted that St. Paul's Church in Vienna had been conducting services for three days "in atonement for outrages on morality" committed by Josephine Baker, Negress dancer, who had been performing next door at the Johann Strauss Theatre...
...Besides the four names above, 126 other women help make laws in the U. S., as members of state legislatures. One is a Negress, Mrs. E. Howard Harper of West Virginia. The party affiliations of the 126 are as follows: Republicans, 86; Democrats, 34 nonpartisan, 5; independent...
...Federal Council of Churches, opened in Manhattan. First prize?$400?in the Harmon Competition had been awarded to Laura Wheeler Waring, who showed, among her seven prize-winning paintings, two splendid portraits of Negro women; the one of a slick brown jane, the other of an old Negress whose face was ugly...