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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 15, 1926 | 3/15/1926 | See Source »

LULU BELLE - Lenore Ulric's savage performance as a Negress courtesan, making a not particularly important play into memorable entertainment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Best Plays: Mar. 8, 1926 | 3/8/1926 | See Source »

...first time in history a Negress was admitted last week to practice before the U. S. Supreme Court. She is Violette N. Anderson of Chicago, and her credentials showed that she had practiced for more than three years before the Supreme Court of Illinois. Before the bar of Justice she stands with privileges equal to those of such eminent practitioners as Charles E. Hughes, John W. Davis; perhaps some day will face them in a great case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEGROES: Lawyer | 2/8/1926 | See Source »

Mattie Julian, Negress, of De Paul University, said: "Too many of the churches have ministers who belong to the Ku Klux Klan. . . . Church people should support the anti-lynching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Student Conference | 1/11/1926 | See Source »

...history* of a superior colored feller with a heap of style The Story. One brilliant noon a comely Negress made her way to the waterside at Barbadoes, leading by the hand her nine-year-old boy. At the quay she entered a small boat to carry her out to a barque, the captain of which had volunteered to take her along "kind o' friendly-like" to Panama. But she left the boy at the water's edge with the remark, "Dere is plenty of bananas and yams and things in B'bayados, also fowls." So Young Jehu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Barbadoes Gentleman | 12/14/1925 | See Source »

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