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Newspaper
The Union
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1933
Page
3
The column argues that few famous Negro fighters last long after gaining fame and drifting to Europe. It attributes their decline to prosperity rather than defeats, noting broader social ruin among Black business and professional people. It laments lack of self denial in the Negro community.
Fisk students staged a silent protest on campus in response to Cordie Cheek’s lynching. Starting at Fisk Memorial Chapel they marched to President Jones’s home and the women’s dormitory before returning, carrying banners demanding anti lynching laws and equal rights. Howard Bennett led a meeting recounting Cheek’s abduction.
The James Stewart & Co. official Watts told a Black woman that no bricklaying jobs would go to Black men. He urged sending Black workers South, saying he would not employ Black people and that they belong in the South. NAACP protested to Acting Treasury Secretary Morgenthau with Watts’s affidavit. Treasury oversees federal building projects.
The campus fallout centers on mob violence against a Black man taken to Columbia County and lynched. Mr. Bennett decries Jim Crow in Nashville theatre crowds while urging student-led freedom battles. Miss Cora Brown criticizes Negro education as inadequate for the Negro problem and accuses a Nashville Negro college president of suppressing protest against the Cordie Cheek lynching.
Tuskegee Institute in Alabama presents The Green Pastures to a capacity audience for a single performance on November 25. The event highlights a classic play attracting local interest and arts patrons.
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