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tnis morning.Negroes Want Troop Action.A conference of 50 negro ministers, professional men, social workers and business men, after investigating tbe causps of tbe Chicago race riots, issued a report -today calling upon Governor Iiowden to detail state troops to end the disturbances.“The race riots are the inevitable result of the friction and bad feeling due to the indifference of the public officials to the bombing of houses occupied by negroes in certain sections of the south side/' the report reads. During the last three months, there have been ten of these bomb outrages with the result that several negroes were killed, and a number injured.“The police have failed to arrest and prosecute those responsible for these violations of the law and as a result had feeling has been engendered and dashes have been numerous between the white men and the negroes. The riot last Sunday started at the 29th street bathing beach, after a negro boy had been drowned by the whites. Negrqes aaked that the white men responsible for the negro's death be arrested, but the policeman on dutythere refused to act. Fighting follow* ed and soon spread to other districts on the/south side. •;I “We believe the race riots could speedily be quelled by the calling out of: state troops to ^patrol the south side and we call upon Governor Dow-den to take the necessary action/'In conclusion the report recoin-' •%» . * ^ . V . • # '# • • • • \ * '■ * * * 9 . • • ^ :mends the apjppintment by Mayor Thompson pf a race council:,6f • fifty members composed of 2£ representative white men and 25 negroes, ’ tp devise plans fo^ bringing about better feeling between the two r^
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Elkhart Review
Elkhart, Indiana, US
Tue, Jul 29, 1919
Page 12
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