State for Negroes Urged by College President
James B. Dudley, president of the Negro Agricultural and Technical College in Greensboro, appeals to President Wilson to support a free Negro state in Africa to be carved from German territories. He asserts Negroes’ home is America and urges fair treatment, criticizing segregation and lynching as unchristian. The letter ends with Dabney signing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James B. Dudley
Negro Agricultural and Technical College
Presi
Africa
Germany
Liberia
America
Wilson
William Saunders Dies After Long Illness in City
William Saunders a loyal Union Baptist Church usher and barber born in Chattanooga Tennessee in 1906 passed away after months of illness at 411 Wade Street his wife by his side Funeral services at home featured Rev W Augustus Jones Rev B F Smith and Rev E H Blue with music by Park Street Church organist and ladies choir Garnet Lodge and Uniform Bank Company E K of P attended The funeral was conducted by Kelly Bros Taylor with Wm Copeland supervising his death ended in full faith in Jesus Christ.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Saunders
Jian
Chattanooga
Tenn
Hope In Christ
Union Baptist Church
Garnett Lodge
No. 22
Uniform Bank Company E
K. of P
J. A. Reeder
Wade Street
W. Augustus Jones
Union Baptist
B. F. Smith
D.D
Park Street Church
E. H. Blue
Jesus Christ
Camp Sherman Notes on Y M C A Work and Transfers
Camp Sherman notes report on activities at Building No 75 where eight Y M C A workers led by Captain Charles Frye supervise a comprehensive program for colored soldiers. Several transfers to Bakery Company 426 at Camp Dix New Jersey are listed. The piece also notes visits by Mrs J C Collins Mr and Mrs S J Townsend and Albert W Hubbard to Cincinnati Ohio. It mentions an Equal Rights League meeting in early December with aims to push colored representation at the Peace Conference in Europe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
No. 75
Chas. Frye
Bakery Company No. 426
Camp Dix
N. J
John D. Copher
Clarence R. Bond
William M. Evans
Rembert E. Goodman
Aleck Jones
Samuel Kelly
George H. Mills
Willie J Turner
James D. Willis
Equal Rights League
Wm. M. Trotter
Washington
Europe
Firing Line Honors Colored Troops at Blois Camp
Secretary Baker praises wounded Black veterans at Blois for Croix de Guerre and D S C recipients. He notes their pivotal steadiness in Argonne fighting, including Hill 304 and Bellau Wood, with Dayton Ohio units enduring heavy shelling and casualties, Anderson Lee and William Chenault among the dead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph W. Tyler
Blois
Baker
Belleau Wood
Chateau Thierry
Soissons
Vesle
Champagne
America
Argonne Forest
Ninth Ohio Battalion
Dayton
Ohio
Anderson Lee
William Chenault
Argonne
Tennyson
Items Of Interest From A Varied News Roundup
The item collection covers election costs, Booker T. Washington’s death anniversary ceremonies at Tuskegee with Dr. Moton delivering the eulogy, and military duty notes for Colonel Young at Camp Grant. It notes strikes by colored workers in New York hotels and Camp Lee white carpenters opposing nonwhite hires, plus postwar peace parades and a Zion Baptist Church surprise party for Rev. Edison with groceries and provisions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Booker T. Washington
Tuskegee
R. R. Moton
New York
Fifth Avenue
Edison
Zion Baptist Church
Elvira Johnson Headlines Palace Cabaret This Week
The Palace Cabaret features acclaimed singer and dancer Elvira Johnson in a show described as a big hit. The entertaining staff have been winning praise as the venue tempts audiences with music and song while signaling that next May the lights may go out.
Selling Wives in Old English Market Days
A curious 19th century practice is described where husbands auctioned wives to the highest bidder rather than seek divorce. Accounts recount a Thompson wife sold for 30 shillings, then swapped for a dog, plus other tales of wife sales in Canterbury and France. The piece notes such auctions were seen as practical and legal by rural folk, contrasting with formal courts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Merrie England
Joseph Thomson
Thompson
Mary Ann Thompson
Williams
Canterbury
Iblé
Also Mentioned on This Page
Greensboro
N. F
Dent Wilson
Bete Is
Dabney
Anna Howard Mathews
Isabella Givins
Rev. Jones
Garnet Lodge
Kelly Bros. & Taylor
Wm. Copeland
Camp Sherman
J. C. Collins
Cincinnati, Ohio
Mrs. S. J. Townsend
Cincinnati
Albert W. Hubbard
Young
Camp Grant
Camp Lee
White Union
Ters
Palace
Elvira Johnson
Moore
Joseph
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