College President and Peonage Case Recalled in 1941 Indictments
A letter recounts the 1941 indictments in Middle Georgia where a Federal Grand Jury, including Black jurors, brought peonage charges. It notes precedent of Negro grand jurors in the district, describes a dramatic sequence with a white planter and a Black peon, and cites jury voting dynamics and testimonies influencing the indictment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Savannah
Middle
Georgia
Bascom Deaver
Chicago
Ill
Barnett
Champion
Mr. Dabney
A GRAND MOVEMENT Neighborhood clubs organize youth guidance
A Grand Movement details neighborhood clubs in Cincinnati area with sponsors and mothers guiding boys to moral religious and civic duties. Clubs listed include Kenyon Avenue Morgan School East End Highland 700 Carlisle 1500 Baymiller and others with church sponsors and mothers. The aim is to foster Christian citizenship among youths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morgan School
Kilgour Street
K. Tracy
East End Highland School
Frye
Carlisle Street
Hall
Baymiller Street
Charity O’donnell
Highth Street
New Prospect Church
J. M. Stephens
Cumminsville
Dirt Street
Evan M. Bowles
Madisonville
S .H. Bullock
Sixth Street
Ernestine Mahan
Peak case load of fair employment practice unit in 1943
Malcolm Ross announces that October 1943 saw 232 employment discrimination cases closed, leaving 1,718 active cases on November 1. Of the closed October cases 62 or 28 percent involved adjusted complainants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
President’s Committee On Fair Employment Practice
Malcolm Ross
Honoring Colored Soldiers and Dear Old Bob Lewis
A Washington letter from October 31, 1943 praises the Union editor’s piece Honoring Colored Soldiers and fondly recalls longtime colleagues and figures from the auditor’s office. The note laments thinning ranks of L. D. B. and marks the passing of Bob Lewis, with reminiscences of Pliny Locke Alain's father and Richard Thompkins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dabney
Socks
Second Auditor’s Office
Pliny Locke
Alain
Richard
Dick”) Thompkins
Bob Lewis
Unions Cited as Truth or Hot Air Debate
A controversial statement urges readers to seek unions for truth while warning against hot air, fakes, or inflated claims. The note emphasizes skepticism and warns against unverified booster rhetoric.
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THE
Cincinnati Gas & Electric CO
West Fifth Street
Cherry
Tony Mitrin
Seoul
Street of Chance
Johnny Mack Brown
Six Gun Gospel
TWO Kittens
Jimmy Newistle
Burgess Meredith
WM. Holden
Jimmy Newill
Rio Grande
Duke Ellington
Joseph Cotton McCoy
Shadow of Doubt
Outlaws
Duke Ellington and Orchestra
Tom Keene
Joseph Cotton
Shadow of A
Polka
Keene ” “Rebellion
Fort Valley, Ga
Dakney
Lyman P. Rocker
West Eighth Street
Cincinnati, Ohio
Tim Pang
Bert’s Pharmacy
KKK
Our Demos
George & Diseetos
Bestwishes, Horace M. Bond
Kenyon Avenue
Fifth Christian Church
Washington, D. C
the Union
Oosevelt Theatre
Cameral Avenue
INCOL
John
Lena Horne
Hazel Scott
Red Skelton
Eleanor
John Loder
Iraq
Roy Rogers
Man From
Music Mountain
Nelson Eddy
Susanna Foster
Claude Rains
Edgar Barrier
Barton Maclane
Don
Red” Barry
Carson City
Chas. Boyer
Colbert Goddard
Mabel Paige
Wild Bill Elliott
Daniel
Boone
John Carradine
Gale Sondergaard
Monterrey
NEY
Beecher
Wooedburn
Beecher Street
Fred Astaire
Joan Leslie
the Sky
LIMIT
Claire Trevor
Mr. Yates
Ceeneany
Merle Oberon
Brian Aherne
Courage
Henry Aldrich
Frontier Badmen
Robert Paige
Anne Gwynne
Noah Beery Jr
Diana Barrymore
Leo Carrillo
Andy Devine
Franchot Tone Marsha Hont
Gene Kelly
WAR Workers Midnite
Clark and Linn Sercoes
Ceae
Walt Disney
Saludos Amigos
Buster Crabbe
ALL American Negro News
Jean Arthur - Joel McCrea
Charles Coburn
Eric Portman
Ann Dvorak
Dakota
EL Coward
Linda Darnell
Sara Allgood
George O’brien
George Raft
Indian Arrow Herb Products
P . W. Whitson, Herbalist
Central Avenue
Cincinnati
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