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Newspaper
The Union
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1921
Page
1
In a lengthy campaign piece Dabney argues the recent council race featured illness and misdirection. He critiques The Union’s open letter, defends The Union’s independence, and urges Black readers to support their own paper while noting debt among readers. He mocks opponents and praises frank voices from diverse quarters.
Joy Peace a Negro was released on $2,500 bond after arrest on information said to be given by his wife alleging he stole two trunks valued at $50,000 from the Grand Central Terminal in New York in June 1920. Mrs Peace implicated a Negro porter. Chicago police asked New York authorities to detain him.
Chicago reports a jewel theft valued at fifty thousand dollars. Eugene Le and a wife figure in a sensational case of alleged revenge amid shifting marital tensions.
A story notes a betrayed woman vowing to pursue legal action after a breakup. Authorities emphasize caution as community sources discuss possible steps forward. No charges are reported at this time.
Aug 16 1921 Cincinnati readers report Mr J W Thorpe a Douglass teacher handed out slips naming John B Morris at the third ward. The writer C B Turner of Walnut Hills objects to Morris position on the Beaty Bill and African Americans.
Federal Laws Planning it convention in Boston 1921 invites lay and religious workers and leaders for citizenship and rights to attend as equal rights delegates from branches churches women clubs civic organizations and fraternal bodies to plan a national campaign to secure passage of amendments 13 14 and 15. Address headquarters 34 Cornhill for correspondence.
The Board of Park Commissioners received bids for a concrete roadway through Ault Park and will award contracts at the next meeting. Extensive landscape work is underway with two tennis courts at each end, one for white and one for colored players, to be laid out near Ashland and Chapel streets in Walnut Hills. The discussion touches on race and public policy in Cincinnati and reflects on segregation practices and their political acceptability.
Announcement from William Joseph Simmons Imperial Wizard announces that the Ku Klux Klan votes to admit women into membership. Simmons says work is underway and plans will be ready in two to three weeks detailing women’s admission into the organization. Atlanta Ga August 14.
LYMAN H. INGRAHAM, Manager announces reserved seats priced at fifty cents.
A speaker denounces schools as instruments of racial division, noting white support and token Black participation used to justify state law violations. He argues money drives prejudice and segregation, binding society with discriminatory chains.
Miss Eunice Tunton of Brooklyn New York, a young colored graduate of the city, achieved a notable record breaking feat in the event.
The individual completed both Bachelor and Master of Arts degrees, the only student in a class of 500 to do so and likely the first in the college's history to finish both in four years. The note laments racial barriers that limit further progress for young women in Christian country.
Dr 8 J Watkins and Mrs Annie Mae Snowden are spending their vacation at West Baden Springs and French Lick resorts. The trip highlights leisure and regional resort travel.
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