Lawmakers push federal anti lynching bill in Congress
Representatives Leonidas Dyer of Missouri addresses a meeting in Brooklyn on December 11 to urge passage of a federal anti lynching law. Senator Curtis of Kansas introduces a companion bill in the Senate. Passage is expected by the next session of Congress.
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AON. P. Service
New York
N.Y. Dee
N.al AL CP
Leonidas C. Dyer
Missouri
Fiss
Brooklyn Academy of Misse
Dyer
Ch Curtis
Kitosastas
Senate
Congress
Colored Studer Excels in Radio Work
ONGTY Service Scheneehaly New York Dee t. Probably the only student in Univ College to have had experied trans Atlantic caida work by Wer Mel W. Rite a Colored student who entered college in TMG but spent two years in the signal corps of the army. He returned fast ye finish his course in electrical neering. He is now a Junior chief engineer of the college radio club Wis Hobby as King himself ideitty is wireless telegraphy in which he has been interested in aint amateur was since MHL he was long the first to suggest the use of the powerful Union Gotlege radio set for sending out aerial weekly a feature which has proved highly successful. In catlege he is also a neiber of the Cosmopolitan club.
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Scheneehaly
New York
Dee T
Univ College
Mel W. Rite
TMG
Signal Corps
Army
College Radio Club
Wis
MHL
Union Gotlege
Catlege
Cosmopolitan Club
Federal anti-lynching bill urged in Senate letters
A letter from James Welton Johnson, secretary of the Associated Negro Press, urges citizens to contact senators and representatives to pass a federal anti lynching law. The appeal notes lynchings across the United States and calls for prosecution of officials and participants in such acts. It references figures like Senator Curtis and Representative Deer and cites a 1920 context.
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Mississippi
Georgia
Dbs
United States
Curtis
Ny Congress
Janes Welton Johnson
Equal Pay For Colored Teachers Demanded in Baltimore
In Baltimore Maryland the effort to equalize salaries for white and Colored teachers reaches the Board of Estimates. A delegation with backing from the Women's Civic League demands salary adjustments for high school and teachers' training school staff to end racial wage discrimination.
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Associated Negro Press
Haltimore
Dee
Women's Civic League
Sax
Murder shocks Washington physician Dr Robert W Brown
Washington mourns the murder of Dr Robert W Brown a respected physician and real estate owner. Police recovered the pistol and fingerprints while investigating a daytime shooting at his home on 7th Street NW and a Norfolk visitor related to the case is questioned. Dr Brown managed National Benefit Life Insurance and lived with his daughters Pearl and Roberta after his wife’s death.
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Associated Negro Preas
Washington, D.C
Washington
Robert W. Brown
Brown
Julian Dabney Jackson
Norfolk
Virginia
Jackson
Dr. Brown
Dr.ackson
Sweeney and Baur
Grant
Union Station
71Th Street
Pearl
Roberta
District of Columbia
National Benefit Life Insurance Company
PF Street
Colored man acquitted in murder of white man after insult incident
In a historic trial a white jury freed E. T. Walbour after twenty hours deliberation. Walbour shot Joseph Conway last May claiming self defense after Conway insulted his colored girlfriend walking with him. Attorney George H. White defended Walbour.
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Associated Negro Press
Pittsburgh
Pas
E. T. Walbour
Joseph ¥. Conway
Conway
Walhour Conway
George 11
Walthour
Lynch mob violence highlighted in NAACP appeal
James Weldon Johnson of the NAACP warns in a press service release that lynching is rising across the United States. He cites a Mississippi mob breaking down courtroom doors two days before Thanksgiving as an example of growing brutality.
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Associated Negro Press
New York
United States
James Weldon Johnson
NAW A. P
Associated Negro
Johnson
Playgrounds for Colored Americans Explored in Magazine
An illustrated article by Ernest J. Mitwell argues for public and private playgrounds for Blacks, detailing welfare aims and the social value of wholesome play. It notes Community Service efforts and the potential of park boards to use this international presentation to boost recreational programs for all ages.
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Associated Washington
the Park Iternational
Washington
Ernest J. Mitwell
Bureau of Colored Work
Continuity Service, Inc
Athwell
Haroun
Imany
Ation
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