Word: negro
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...writer agrees with the CRIMSON editorial condemning lynching, but asks any man what he would have done were he a resident of an ordinarily well-conducted and prosperous community in which such crimes had been perpetuated. Emigration of negro labor from the South to the Omaha packing plants, which are the second largest in the world, has been exceedingly great since 1917, and the total number of negroes is estimated at more than 10,000. The negro problem in the South, and now, as never before, in the Middle West, is steadily advancing to the fore. With the perpetration...
...appears before a raucous mob which had not yet commenced violence, carrying in his hand a revolver with which he menaces as he orders dispersal of the crowd, and when this official happens to be a leading member of the law firm which has been hired to defend a negro identified as assailant of a white girl, who can answer for the safety of the foolhardy man? No wonder he was about to have been lynched...
...indeed a proud statement for the CRIMSON to make that New England has not witnessed a lynching for 22 years, but Omaha had not seen one either for a similar period. Also, New England, fortunately, has no real "negro problem" with which to deal. Sol A. Rosenblatt...
...Rice is the only white man ever to reach the sources of the Amazon and Orinoco Rivers, and from his last South American expedition brought back the important ethnological collection now in Peabody Museum. He also succeeded in mapping practically the entire Amazon and the Rio Negro...
...must not, therefore, hasten to condemn negro troops. They have shown their mettle in many a skirmish, and the Houston affair is merely an incident which discredit individuals, not a race. The individuals have suffered, the race should...