Word: whitings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Omaha records show upon investigation by police reporters that there were 28 outrages and assaults upon white females, the youngest being a girl of 12 years and the oldest a gray-haired wom-of 62, within the period from July 15 to September 6 of this year. All assailants in being described to police were described as negroes, and three negroes caught were actually identified. Newspapers, at the request of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, refrained from commenting upon the situation, merely publishing the facts of the cases. One of the negroes, identified as the assailant...
...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...
...York's total took a climb yesterday with one more large subscription of $100,000 reported from George F. Baker, Jr., '99. Other subscriptions included $28,000 from Alexander M. White '92, $25,000 apiece from C. N. Bliss, Jr., '97, and C. S. Fairchild '63, $20,000 from R. T. Lincoln '64, $10,000 from R. L. Bacon '07, and $5,000 from Norman Davis...
Professor Norton A. Kent of Boston University, P. Compos 3L., and H. D. White '21 will be the speakers at the annual reception to be held Friday evening by the Cosmopolitan Club in the Parlor of the Phillips Brooks House at 7.30. All members of the University are invited to attend but the reception is held principally for the benefit of the foreign students. Following the speeches there will be a social hour...
Lynching, like Slavery, has never recognized racial or geographic limits; as the fate of the Mayor of Omaha forcibly reminds us. Hundreds of white men in this country have been victims of lawlessness and mob violence; it was the lynching of a Montana labor leader that called forth President Wilson's utterance of July 26th. It cannot be confined to the South: excluding New England there is not a single section of the Union which has not been the scene of at least one lynching in the past 22 years. The evil is national in range and scope; the nation...