Col C C Ballou Praised by Negro Officers in Camp Speech
Col C C Ballou idolized by Negro officers at a training camp session with Bishop J Albert Johnson as speaker. Editor Crews offered remarks praising Secretary DePrantz and Dr George W Cabaniss of Washington. The Des Moines Register piece cited shows the camp’s personnel and aim, tracing origins to Joel B Spingarn and Rev J Milton Waldron.
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J. Albert Johnson
Crews
DePrantz
Dene
Beckett
George W. Cabannia
Washington, D. C
DeFrantz
Des Moines Register
Joel B. Spingarn
National Association For the Advancement of the Colored Race
J. Milton Waldron
George W. Cabaniss
Washington
Army Y. M. C. A
Negro women sought after $3200 hotel robbery
A white man reported being robbed by two Negro women of 3200 dollars at 507 East Sixth Street, and police search for the suspects. Also noted is a report of Bishop J Albert Johnson D preaching at Allen Chapel Sunday evening July 29 at 745, described as a leading scholar and speaker for the race in Greater Kansas City.
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East Sixth Street
J. Albert
Johnson
South Africa
Baltimore
Washington, D. C
Allen Chapel
Bishop Johnson
Kansas City
Cosmopolitan Gathering of Cadets Draws Elite Graduates
The event brings graduates from Harvard Yale Brown Amherst Howard Tuskegee Wilberforce Hampton and many other colleges to provide most of the men in attendance. Among the cadets are forty eight physicians eighteen dentists twenty six lawyers six ministers and one hundred twenty four school teachers with eighty eight government employees and four artists also listed.
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Harvard
Yale
Brown
Amhurst
Howard
Tuskegee
Wilberforce
Hampton
Col C C Ballou Visits Des Moines Negro Officers Camp
The editor along with Dr Edward B Ramsey Attorney W B Bruce and chauffeur David Jackson travel from Kansas City to Des Moines to tour the training camp for Negro officers. They meet Bishop Johnson at St Paul AME and tour Camp Y M C A noting the mobilization effort and rising leadership of Black servicemen.
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Edward B. Ramsey
Des Moines
Kansas City
Ramsey
W. B Bruce
David Jackson
Burlington
Clay County
Liberty
Excelator Springs
Hugh White
Albany
Henry Harris
Chillicothe
Trenotn
Gully Knight
Missouri
Judge Knight
Nelson Crews
W. H. Warricks
West 18Th Street
J. Albert Johnson
St. Paul's
Northwest
St. Paul
8. L. Birt
13Th and Crocker
United States
R. B. DeFrants
Charles Young First Negro Colonel in U S Army Line
Lieut Col Charles Young of the Tenth Cavalry, nominated for colonel from June 22, 1917, would be the first Black officer to reach the colonel rank in the U S Army line. Born in Kentucky on March 12, 1861, he is a U S M A graduate from the class of 1889.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. T. Allen
United States Army
Kentucky
Negro college men drive success of new camp plan
The War Department cites Professor Thomas A. Gregory as chairman and EK Benjamin Curley as secretary of the national Negro college men committee. Advocates proved they could recruit a sufficient number of capable Negroes to justify the camp, showing at least 100 college and university men in attendance alongside others who succeeded.
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War Department
Thomas A. Gregory
National Committee of
EK. Benjamin Curley
Prayer to the Flag by Roscoe C. Jamison
A period poem praising the flag and its power to curb oppression and grant freedom. It calls for justice, equal opportunity, and peace, urging unity and the flag to lead Black Americans toward strength and equality in a world at war.
Camp gathers university men from many states
Business men lacking college training send 200 students. Howard University in Washington DC has sent 200 students and 100 alumni to the camp, with university men from states north of the Mason and Dixon line also present. Harvard is represented by 15 to 20 graduates. A dozen university instructors are listed.
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Howard University of Washington
DD. C
Mason and Dixon Line
Harvard
Negro Bands in Rivalry at 18th Street Jazz Night
Rivalry erupted Monday night as Drake and Walker’s six piece Jazz group faced a delegation from Billy Kling’s. A two minute volley of trombone and cornet fire accompanied the clash while bass drums thundered. The six held their ground as Cobran of Pleasant Hill, Mo., visited his niece Mrs. Hart at 1043 Grandview Bird.
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Drake
Walker
18Th Street
Yanka Hula
Hicky Dula
Billy Kling
T. H. Cobran
Pleasant Hill, Mo
W. E. Hart
Grandview Bird
Negro Workers Call for Industrial Union And Leadership
A speaker urges Black workers to unite for better conditions through an industrial union. He notes 60 million dollars in church property owned by Negroes and 10 million annually spent on upkeep and salaries, mostly by workers. He promises to reveal the meeting place and date in a future Sun article and urges readers to attend.
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United States
the Sun
Colored women urged to register in Kansas City today
A public notice calls on every colored woman in Kansas City to register today, citing voter eligibility and upcoming election requirements. The campaign emphasizes civic participation and equal access to the ballot.
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Kansas City
Cornerstone Laying for New Jami son Temple C M E Church
The cornerstone will be laid Sunday August 5 at 2 00 p m at 1815 Paseo under Masonic auspices. Rev J R McClain urges a large crowd as Masons and lodges from Liberty Parkville Weaton Platte City Quindaro and Kansas City Kansas attend. Knights Templar Commanderies escort. Grand Master Fields to lay stone with former grand masters Crews Coles and others attending.
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Jamison Temple
C. M. E. Church
1815
Paseo
J. R. McClain
Kansas City
Kansas
Knights Templar
Knight Templar
Fields
N. C. Crews
R. T. Coles
Mosely
D. G. M. Lacey
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C. C. Ballou
Doctor Cabanias
Tumulty
Fort Des Moines
Conession
America
Charlies Young
Charles Young
Tenth
United States Cavalry
Roscoe C. Jamison
Europe
Starks
Rucker Smith
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