Ku Klux Klan targets Georgia labor shortage over Negro exodus
Georgia communities see Klan focus on keeping negro workers in state rather than intimidation. Labor Commissioner Hal Stanley warns that mass departures of hundreds of negro farm hands threaten agriculture. Farmers urge senators to modify immigration law to bring in foreign workers. The rhetoric frames the exodus as a labor crisis and cites Klan opposition to negro labor.
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Ku Klux
Tory
Georgia
Hal Stanley
Gorgia
Entertaining Letter to The Union Editor
A Minnesota reader writes to The Union editor from Clementson lamenting fragmentation among Black families, urging unity and migration westward or to Africa. He notes personal success in homesteading, recalls failed recruitment from Cincinnati, and questions emigration options and civil rights, asking if Congress will grant equal rights or if relocation is preferred.
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Union
California
Liberia
Africa
Congress
Colored man denied South Africa entry under laws
American Consular Service in Cape Town informs William Craven Clementson of Minnesota that, as a colored person, he cannot be allowed to immigrate to South Africa under the country’s immigration laws. The letter cites the August 6, 1922 inquiry and notes the prohibition based on race.
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Cape Town
South Africa
William Craven
Clementson
Minnesota
Consul Questions Carven on Entering South Africa
American Consul Charles J. Pisar writes that travelers are not permitted to enter South Africa and that any attempt to come is useless. The consular reply will appear next week, while readers are invited to consider the problems raised by Mr. Carven.
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South Africa
Charles J, Pisar
Chare
Mr. Carven
Lynchings in 1922 total 57 with most in Georgia and Texas
R R Moton presents Tuskegee Institute figures for 1922 lynchings. Fifty one victims were Black, six white. thirty seized from law, 13 from jails, 17 from officers. Five percent of cases saw officers prevent lynchings. most incidents occurred in the South, led by Texas with 18 and Georgia with 11.
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Tuskegee Institute
Department of Records and Research
Monroe N
Alabama
Arkansas
Florida
Georgia
Louisiana
Mississippi
Oklahoma
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
R. R. Moton
Passing Of A Hoax On The Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill
The Enquirer reports that the Dyer anti-lynching bill, dropped from the Republican Senate schedule, served to mislead African Americans into believing the majority would protect them while exposing the deceit of backers. It notes the bill was unlikely to pass, and condemns the Liberia loan proposal as another political fraud now in limbo.
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United States
Senate
Liberia
The
Enquirer
Montreal Crowd Hears Joyful Reunited Friends Embrace
In a Montreal town a richly dressed couple attended a white entertainment where a colored orchestra played. A man, recognizing the band, rushed to greet the black musician who grew up with him in Dayton, Ohio. The crowd watched as a long awaited reunion sparked wild celebration.
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George
Dayton
Ohio
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