Word: negro
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Yesterday at ten of the morning, near Memphis, Tennessee, a mob of five thousand white men burned with fire a negro to the death. The negro had been accused of the commission of a capital crime. Under the law he deserved death according...
...read the story of Christ's birth from the Scriptures, and a selection from Milton's "Ode on Nativity." Miss Margaretta Josephine Penick, of the Emerson College of Oratory, will give "An Evening of Dialect." In this entertainment, Miss Penick will give her admirable interpretation of German, Italian, Scotch, negro, Irish, Hoosier and child dialects. E. I. Dale 2G, who makes a specialty of Western folklore, will give a sketch of cowboy and Indian life on the frontier. Speaking from his own wide experience in the Western States, he will make his part of the program interesting...
...entertainment provided at the Freshman smokers should be of a super-refined character, but I am sure that more than one man felt that the bounds of common decency were trespassed by a part of the entertainment of last Thursday evening. I refer to the performance of four negro comedians, who, responding to applause elicited by a selection somewhat more grotesque than such performers commonly use, appeared on the stage dressed in pseudo-military uniforms, carrying our national flag, and singing a song certainly not unpatriotic in sentiment but robbed of any patriotic inspiration by the manner of the singers...
...Senior smoker will be held in the Dining Room of the Union this evening promptly at 9.15 o'clock. Complete returns of today's elections for the Senior officers will be given out as soon as they are received, a negro quartet will furnish abundant vocal harmony, and the committee has arranged for the usual supply of smokes and refreshments. The newly elected officers will be on hand and it is the duty of every 1915 man to help make this the best and brightest smoker in the history of the class...
Atlanta University is a college, normal school, and high school for preparing young men and women of the negro race for service among their own people. This service usually takes the form of teaching. The institution has had an extraordinary record and has done much toward solving one of the greatest problems in this country--that of the colored people...