Disabled Veterans Denied Admission at Waco Conference
A letter from Bishop Dale and Preston Phillips recounts that Disabled American Veterans delegates from Prairie View Chapter No. 1 were refused entry to a state conference at The Raleigh Hotel in Waco Texas on May 1 1922. The hotel manager cited a white posts plan and suggested the Colored post should not attend. The delegation alleges prejudice despite their service and honors.
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Waco
Texas
Express
View
Preston Phillips
Bishop Dale
Prairie View
Prairie View College
Raleigh Hotel
Miner
McNeal
Tyler
Raleigh
C. Kile
Dallas
Kile
America
Dr Crossland Named Special Expert Now Clerical at Veterans Bureau
Washington molds the case of Dr J R A Crossland of St Joseph Missouri a Republican appointee once in charge of all activities for Colored ex soldiers now reduced to a single rehabilitation branch occupying smaller quarters on the seventh floor The shift followed disputes with Capt Campbell Johnson a Civil Service official and alleged charges against him The latest office list shows about 1056 men under the rehabilitation department enrolled at various schools.
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Washington
D. C
Veterans Bureau
J. R. A. Cros
St. Josop
Crossland
Capt. Campbell, C. Johnson
Veterans Building
Board of I
Dr. Crossland
Capt. Johnson
Cross
Havi Pare
Reibeki Insurance
Ms. Com
Smithsonian Exhibit Showcases 17 African Figures by Ward
Washima D. C. May 11. The Smithsonian Curator Dr Walter Hough announces an exhibition of seventeen African sculptures donated by the widow of sculptor Herbert Ward. Works include The Bakongo Girl The Mask of a Negro The Fugitives and The Idol Maker illustrating primitive carving methods and Africa's artistic power.
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Smithsonian Institute
Herbert Ward
Washima D. C
Walter Hough
White
Congo
Stanley
Calvin Coolidge
London
Paria
Americl
Africa
America
Ward
Ah Tre
Doubts About White Heritage Force Arlington School Stand
In Jacksonville Florida Mr Lewis R Salis won a mandamus against Dr Hathaway and the Board of Instruction ordering them to readmit his three children Clara 11 Gladis 9 and Lewis K Jr 6 to Arlington school or state the理由 They were kept out after neighbors claimed they were not white Florida law classifies whiteness by blood ratio Salis argued Minorcan descent but seven eighths white and his wife fully white Therefore his children allegedly have less than one eighth non white blood The officials argued the children were not considered white and barred from Arlington school
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Jacksonville
Pla
May
Lewis R. Salis
Dr. Hathaway
Public Intruction
Board of Instruction
Arlington School
Clara
Gladis
Lewis K., Jr
Florida
Salis
Balearic Islands
Mediterranean
U S Will Not Evacuate Haiti
United States officials, including Secretary Hughes, rejected a call for ending the Haiti occupation. Senators Owen, Marshall, and Doyle pressed for termination, but Hughes stated the statements are inadequate and one sided and promised careful study before policy decisions. He emphasized international obligations and ongoing efforts to coordinate actions for Haiti’s stability and public tranquility.
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Washington, D. C
Haiti
State Department
Robert L. Owen
Oklahoma Democrat
Louis Marshall
New York
Michael Francia Doyl
Philadelphia
Hughes
Ttme Spears
United States
Prof Richard Greener Dies Eminent Scholar of Harvard
Chicago May 11 Prof Richard Theodore Greener poet statesman and first Colored Harvard graduate dies at 78 at his Chicago home due to age related complications. He was librarian secretary at South Carolina during Reconstruction and Yale Harvard dean Dunbar principal Washington consul Vladivostok Bombay Chinese Boxers Medal of Double Dragon. He later served on the Grant Monument Commission and as editor of New National Era reflecting a long career in literature and public service.
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Chicago
Ill
Richard Theodore Greener
Harvard
Richard Greener
Philadelphia
Phillips Exeter Academy
Cambridge
Charles Sumner
Endell Phil Ups
William Aire Garrison
Oliver
Wendell Holmes
Agfellow
Emmerson
Lowell
Greeman
Vladivostock
Russia
U. S
Bombay
Great Britain
Japan
United States
Greener
Grant
Washington
New York Civil Service Board
Ridicule of Races to Cease in Chicago
Chicago officials consider amending the moving picture censorship ordinance to ban nicknames and terms ridiculing race nation or creed. Alderman Robert Jackson leads a subcommittee in proposing the change, with Olsen Coughlin Madderom and Brieske voting to recommend it. The amendment would prohibit terms such as kike nigger coon Turk mick and any ridicule of religion or law authorities in films.
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Chicago
Ill
Ald
Robert Jackson
City Coun
Judiciary Committee
Coon
Mick
Jackson
Olsen
Coughlin
Madderom
Brieske
The Mother Knows Them
Booth Tarkington meets a Negro woman and her children in a brief scene. He comments on the children, noting one girl and a bibbed boy, while the mother affirms the girl’s gender in pidgin speech.
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Associated Negro Press
Booth Tarkington
Indiana
Tarking
Hughes defends $5 000 000 Liberia loan debate
Washington May 1 Secretary Hughes defended a proposed 5 million dollar loan to Liberia as a moral obligation and denied private gain for bankers. He said bonds totaling 1.5 million would be retired, most held abroad, and urged the loan to aid Liberia which joined the war in 1917. Senator Borah later criticized U S occupation of Haiti in a New York speech urging public opinion to push for withdrawal.
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Hughes
Borah
Liberia
Haiti
DISCE
Washington, D. C
Urgin
Lieberia
Promi
Tary Hughes
House
Ays and Means
Committee On the Legilation
Republic of
Milbenia
United States
United Sates
Germany
Holland
Great Britain
Mr. Hughes
Presima
Republic
Secce
Brostacut Harding
New York
N. Y
William G. Borah
Idaho
Senate
Alts
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Inne Hall
Blu Republic
D' Artiguenave
Eee
Speskine
India
Siberia
Herbert J. Seligmann
James Weldon Johnson
N. A
Haiti- Santo Domingo
Independence Society
Benabor Bora
Carnegie Hall
Liberia report shows pitiful conditions and stalled progress
An Express correspondent decries Liberia’s plight after a week in Monrovia. He cites disease poverty and territorial losses, critiques education focus over hands on work, and urges practical leadership and industrial training to build a usable foundation for the republic. He notes Liberia College decay and calls for leaders with hands on skills.
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Liberia
Republic of
Liberia College
Ita
St. Pauls
Messarado
Monrovia
America
Booker T. Washington
Beveridge and New Compete in Indiana Gubernatorial Fight
Indiana primary results spark division among Black voters over Beveridge and New. Beveridge wins Republican nomination amid calls for open allegiance. New banked strong support from Black citizens. Rosenwald fund allocates $574,680 for rural Negro schools across fourteen southern states for fiscal year starting July 1, and Tennessee gets detailed allocations for building and staffing for various school types.
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Rosenwald
Indiana
Nashville
Tenn
L Smith
Julius Rosenwald
Chicago
Labama
Florida
Kentucky
North Tolima
Y Homa
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Virginia
MusseI Shoals spelling dispute traced to early records
Florence Ala May 11 A Birmingham lawyer John B Weakley claims Tennessee River shoals near Mussel Shoals were once spelled Mupeel Shoals based on 1418 to 1876 survey data He asserts Mussel name changed during the Myscle Shoals canal project while army engineers say it never changed and derive from mussels or a muscle used to pull canoes.
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Florence
Ala
Tennessee River
Mr. Weakley
Myscle Shoals
Weakley
Army
Case of Prof Kerlin Is Continued
Lexington Virginia May 11 The Virginia Military Institute asked for a continuance in the Rockbridge County circuit court case against Col Robert T Kerlin former faculty member due to the illness of an attorney The continuation moves to the September term Kerlin alleges high handed despotism after dismissal for a letter criticizing the Arkangel government and seeks $60000 in damages
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Lexington
Virginia Military Institute
Ecircuit
Rockbridge County
Robert T. Kerlin
Col. Kerlin
Kerlin
Arkangel
T the
Scottish Rite Council Meets in St. Paul
The annual session of the Supreme Council of Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, 33rd and 33°, met in St. Paul Minnesota May 1 and 2. Levi J. Coppin preached the annual sermon at St James A M church. Representatives from the North and new Cleveland, Ohio electees formed a large delegation. St. Paul extended hospitality with receptions and social activities. the session was described as most interesting.
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St. Paul
Minn
Supreme Council of Ancient
Free Masonry
Levi J. Coppin
St. James A. M
Cleveland
Ohio
Benguet
Supreme Council
Placid Paris Shocks Over American Craps Club Raid
In Paris on May 11 four dozen players were seized in a Tempo Club raid tied to an American Negro social venue started by Joe from New York. Authorities confiscated fourteen rasers two revolvers and all jacks as four suspects faced arrest for shooting craps. The raid highlights the novelty and danger of a game long unknown in Mauiry.
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Paris
Tempo Club
Bie
Joe
New York
Nuubers
Jaux
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