Coolidge at Tuskegee Speech Attacks Segregated Hospital
The piece condemns the $2,000,000 Tuskegee veterans hospital as a symbol of national shame for segregation. It argues African Americans earned citizenship and deserve equal treatment, denouncing Tuskegee as not an achievement but a curse of caste. It criticizes Tuskegee principal Moton for praising the hospital and calls for end to racial stratification.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New
Negro Veterans’ Hospital
Robert H. Moton
Tuskegee
United States
America
Moton
Learning capacity of Central African Negroes affirmed
Missionaries Hartzler and Miller reporting from Kabongo in the Congo Belge assert African natives have learning capacity on par with other races under similar conditions. They emphasize no background training and say early schooling builds fundamentals, while teaching carpentry, gardening, and crafts to raise living standards and civilizational development.
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Central Africa
Coleman C. Hartzler
W. A. Miller
Board of Foreign Missions
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Congo Belge
Kabongo
Luba
Hartzler
Capetown
Africa
America
Mr. Hartzler
Miller
Mr. Miller
The Union letter from Tokyo expresses sympathy and humanity
From Japan Post Box F. 15 in Tokyo The Union writer sends sincere sympathy to the oppressed black brothers and declares humanity beyond race The letter emphasizes shared humanity over racial taint and asserts solidarity with the cause.
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Tokyo
Japan
Union
Mahendra Pratap on Religion of Love and Happiness Party
In a January 1923 letter, Raja Mahendra Pratap advocates religious moral unity and opposes racial or sectional unions, outlining two schemes titled the Religion of Love and the Happiness Party, and notes plans to travel in China's interior while inviting correspondence.
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Happiness Party
China
Mahendra Pratap
Raja
Suit In Indiana Reveals White Man Claim In Divorce
In Noblesville Indiana Mrs Jennie Rickman seeks divorce from Wilbur Rickman who has recently filed to be declared a white man. He has long passed as colored, with a mother in the city married to a colored man. Rickman claims white parentage was hidden. Mrs Rickman says she learned of his claims only recently. The couple, married twelve years, have three or four children.
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Wilbur Rickman
Rickman
Rickmans
Get Rid Of Nonsense Says Rector In Lenton Sermon
New York February 28 Rev Dr Percy Stickney Grant rector of the Church of the Ascension urges getting rid of myth and illusion in religion. He questions apostles creed origin and the Holy Ghost while calling for a return to real beliefs and understanding amid church factionalism and global missionary critique.
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New York
Percy Stickney Grant
Church of the Ascension
Grant
William T. Manning
Protestant Episcopal Diocese of
Greece
Rome
A Southern Dialogue on the Negro Question
Clement Wood and Lankford debate segregation and mixed relationships in the South. The dialogue extols separate facilities, laments illegitimacy laws, and warns of racial tensions shaping social and political life in Alabama and beyond.
Votes for Sale In Elections Across Counties
A dated critique notes extensive vote buying in Pike and Adams counties. The piece argues that white voters sold their votes, while national politicians accusing African Americans of unfitness overlook the broader corruption, comparing the voter to a reclaimed African who imitates vice.
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Coolidge
Rabbi David Philipson
Rockdale Ave
Temple
Ninth Street Y
Neugen
Battle and Madden
Artie Mthews
Necoendil
Ladies Invi
Noblesville, Ind
Jennie Rickman
Bjs. Grant
Jesus
Asia
Great Eastern Journal
Clement Wood
Wood
Lankford
Columbia University
Mr. Lankford
South
Mr. Wood
Ethiopia
Washington
Alabama
Heaven
Pike County
Adams County
Brot Sane
Peter B.kyne
Helene Chadwick
Claire Windsor
Mae Busch
Pat O'Malley
Norman Kerry
E.mason Hopper
Goldwys
Pekin Theatre
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