Republicans and Jim Crow Cars Shame Messenger Editorial
The Messenger urges anti-lynching unity and economic power for Negroes, condemning Arkansas lynchings and demanding boycott of silent politicians. It denounces Republican complicity in Jim Crow and calls for widespread protests, fundraising, and voter scrutiny ahead of 1920. The piece argues both parties neglect Black rights and urges organized action.
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the Messenger
N. Y
Helena
Ark
Mexico
Arkansas
The
Messenger
New York City
Vardaman
John Sharpe Williams
Madden
Colored women organize Democratic club in St Louis
Tulsa Star News reports that about fifty colored women met in St Louis to form an auxiliary to the Associated Colored Democratic Ward Club. Officers elected include Mrs Lindley Wilborn president and Mrs Genevieve Mills vice president, with more than a hundred reportedly signing membership blanks.
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Tulsa Star News
St. Louis
Associated Colorer Democratic Ward Club
Lindley Wilborn
Genevieve Mills
Parsetta Callaway
Irene Whetstone
Annie Branch
Ernie Lawry
Educator takes Santa Fe express agent post at Brooksville
Prof. L. Simmons, a well known educator and friend of the Tulsa Star, has accepted the post of Santa Fe express agent at Brooksville, Oklahoma. Elwood Mead, a settlement worker, states after investigation that half of Kansas Nebraska and Oklahoma farmers are renters.
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L. 5. Simmons
The
Tulsa Star
Santa Fe
Express
Brooksville
Okla
Elwood Mead
Kansas, Nebraska
Oklahoma
Cipals Association to Meet in Oklahoma City
The Colored Principals' Association is called to meet in Oklahoma City at Dunbar school auditorium on Saturday February 14 at 10 o clock. The meeting will discuss matters affecting separate schools in Oklahoma. All supporters of education are invited to attend and participate. several educational leaders are invited to speak. W. H. Fort.
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Colored Principals’ Association
Oklahoma City
Dunbar School
Oklahoma
Friends of the Cause of Education
W. H. Fort
Census Man Finds Freaks in Muskogee Tale
Star News Service reports at 5 North Third Street Muskogee Oklahoma a 106 year old African American woman is said to be growing her third set of teeth and claims she was enslaved in the South before the Civil War. Nearby a mixed color child is described with blue eyes and white woolly hair as a freak according to census workers.
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Star News Service
Muskogee
Okla
North Third Street
Deck Autry
Auwry
Notable Gathering at Tuskegee Institute
Tuskegee Alabama January 30 One of the most notable groups ever gathered at Tuskegee Institute met in a joint session to discuss issues related to color problems and education. Leaders and delegates from various organizations attended this historic assembly seeking solutions and collaboration.
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Tuskegee Institute
Tuskegee, Aln
Phelps Stokes Fellows Study Color Problem At University Races
A joint session of the Phelps Stokes Fellows and University Races Commission met January 5 6 and 7. Fellows from the University of Georgia and University of Virginia, funded by the Phelps Stokes fund, study color problems in sociology and prepare a monograph on their subject, thanks to Miss Caroline Phelps Stokes.
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Phelps Stokes
University Races Commission
Universities of
Georgia
Virginia
Phelps Stokes Fund
Caroline Phelps Stokes
Tuskegee Institute
Virginia Negro Education Progress Highlighted by Southern Workman
The Southern Workman notes dramatic growth in Virginia Negro education. Supervising teachers expanded from a few to sixty three counties contributing state funds. Secondary training emerges with sixteen rural junior high schools. Rosenwald funds and local effort have financed hundreds of thousands for building rural Negro schools and new city schools. The piece ends urging remembrance of ongoing progress.
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Virginia
Rosenwald Fund
Watste
Gew
Uxemet
Virginia Negro Education Conditions Report
In Virginia today fewer than two thirds of Negro children of school age attend schools while most rural Negro schools remain one room. Across fifty five counties the average term has been six months or less and fifty seven percent of Negro students attend first or second grade.
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Virginia
Howard University Seeks Financial Aid, Dr. Dillard Notes
Washington Jan 30 Dr James H Dillard head of the boards overseeing the John F Mater and Anna T Jeanes Fund says Howard University is the capstone of Negro education in America and the world He cites Booker T Washington a former trustee urging whites to recognize Howard's value.
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Washington
James H. Dillard
John F. Mater
Anna T. Jeanes
Howard University
Sea
Booker T. Washington
Howard
Dean Pickens Seeks Race Adjustment Views in Chicago Letter
Morgan College leader Dean William Pickens visited Chicago with a minister to observe race relations. He toured city areas to learn how to promote race adjustment and wrote an open letter to Senator James Vardaman and John Sharpe Williams titled A Little Journey Along the Color Line.
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N. P. Service
Chicago
William Pickens
Morgan College
Baltimore
Maryland
Jas. K. Vardaman
John Sharpe Williams
A Southerner's mixed gathering in Chicago observation
Wm Pickens of Baltimore Maryland describes attending a Chicago cabaret where white and colored men and women mingled freely. He notes surprising democracy among attendees, contrasts with his Southern upbringing, and questions racial barriers while urging informed, thoughtful discussion rather than prejudice.
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Feil
Dean Pickens
Senator Vardaman
Chicago
Ingis
Wouter
Babylon
Chicago University
Pickens
Arlington Ave
Govans
Baltimore
Maryland
Byrnes Declares Sims Deserves Dishonorable Discharge
Congressman Byrnes of South Carolina labels Rear Admiral Sims a traitor for testimony before the senate naval committee. He urges that if a superior officer admonished Sims about England before the war, repeating it to the committee warrants condemnation and a dishonorable discharge from the Navy.
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Washington
W. Sims
Senate Naval Committee
Byrnes
South Carolina
Houses
Sims
England
United States
Senate
Louis Man Succeeds Secretary-Treasurer Glass
Washington January 30 David S Houston secretary of agriculture will be appointed secretary of the treasury by President Wilson Ed win T Meredith of Iowa editor of Successful Farmer will succeed Houston as secretary of the treasury Meredith home is St Louis Missouri and he has led major universities and agricultural colleges in Texas and Missouri including University of Texas and Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas Meredith is noted as a prominent farm journal writer and head of the Associated Advertising Clubs of America
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Washington
David S. Houston
Agriculture
the Treasury
Wilson
White, Horse
Houston
Edwin T. Meredith
Iowa
Secretary of the Treasury
St. Louis
Washington University At
University of Texas
Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas
Texas Universty
Meredith
Associated Advertising Clubs of America
Tulsa Subscriber Makes Big Land Deal
Mr. A Copeland, a Star subscriber from Beggs, traded 80 acres for 156,000 in a recent sale, a high Oklahoma land price. Earlier he received 40,000 for another tract, marking rising fortunes and potential millionaire-status in the community.
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Tulsa
A. Copeland
the Star
Beggs
Oklahoma
Copeland
Bexes
America
Ten Financial Commandments and a Marriage Notice
Ten commandments on personal finance from the Bartlesville Examiner announce marriage plans as Miss Omar Porter wed Dr EB Dickens. The couple, Mr. and Mrs. Smith of 1191/2 N Greenwood Street, left for Youngstown Ohio after the announcement.
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Smith
Greenwood Street
Omar Porter
EB. L. Dickens
Youngstown
Ohio
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Democratic Club
Negro Express
Cipals’ Association
Tuskegee
Traisedt
Dr. Dillard
Louis Man
Glass
Bartlesville Examiner
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