Word: negroes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harlem: "If your district leader is a white man, pitch him out. You have a jimmy in your votes to better conditions. Use it. Don't complain about race discrimination; change it through practical politics. When a Negro doesn't want to elect a Negro, there is either jealousy or dirty money behind...
...Mason & Dixon line between Pennsylvania and Maryland (and its westward extension under the Missouri Compromise of 1820) once divided free States from slave. It still divides the North from the South on Negro treatment. Last fortnight portly, grey-wooled Oscar De Priest crossed it for the first time since he took his seat as the only Negro Congressman (from Illinois). He addressed 5,000 blacks at the Lexington (Ky.) Colored Fair...
Last week Oscar De Priest crossed back to the North, addressed another large Negro audience in Harlem, "capital of Black America." The theme of each speech was the same: the Negro's use of his political power to attain his constitutional rights. The De Priest treatment of that theme South and North was different. Comparisons...
...Stephens, Negro, 21, 5 ft. 7 in., for breaking jail, for attacking park couples. Warning: "Vicious...
Rape was the charge against Curley Wright, Negro, when he faced a judge and jury in circuit court at Centerville, Tenn., last week. He was glad when 100 National Guardsmen arrived to cow a vengeful mob that threatened to lynch him. Complainant against him was Mrs. Zora Johnson Lynn, 55, weak-minded widow. Her account of the attack was lurid. Her two granddaughters, posing as eyewitnesses, embellished the tale by telling how Wright had flourished pistols, one in each hand...