Klan Debate Defines 1920 Campaign Shifts
In a polarized presidential year the Ku Klux Klan dominates discourse as Republicans and Democrats clash over naming and condemning the organization. Dawes and Davis weigh in with cautious condemnations while Coolidge faces pressure to state a firmer stand amid racial and religious prejudice debates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ku Klux Klan
LA Follette
John W. Davis
South
Seagirt
N. J
Maine
Gen. Dawes
Gus Karger
Times-Star
Chas. G. Dawes
United States
Conuisane
Oklahoma
Herrin
Illinois
Sam
Coolidge
Klan
The Negro's Place in History and Education
The Indianapolis Sunday Star piece quotes Professor Commons on Teutonic mental capacity and the hypothetical uplift of infants, then argues the Negro race cannot achieve similar progression. It references a Garrett Biblical Institute pamphlet noting a student’s father described as a village warrior, as part of the author’s reflections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest.Fremont Tittle
Indianapolis Sunday Star
Commons
University of Wisconsin
America
Garrett Biblical Institute
Everybody Talks But Coolidge Opinion Song
A political rhythm critiques President Coolidge as silent on race segregation and racial issues while contrasting him with Davis La Follette and others. The verse expresses fatigue with empty promises and urges action beyond rhetoric.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coolidge
Davis
la Follette
From Cocoanut Tree to College A Stylistic Lecture on the Negro
A Harlem lecture titled From Cocoanut Tree to College recounts the life of a Blooah native who rose from a cocoanut tree sighting of a white man to postgraduate study in an American theological school. The speaker argues for judging the Negro by soul and achievement, citing Blackstone Grant Hunton Maran Gilpin McCoy DuBois and Dunbar as examples of notable Black progress and urges equal opportunity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blooah
Midnight
Prof
Commons
America
University of Pennsylvania
Harris F. Blackstone
Cook County Hospital
Walter 8. Grant
Smith College
Misa-Eunice Hunton
Rene Maran
Drama League of America
Charles S. Gilpin
United States Patent Office
Elijah McCoy
Scott
Tanner
Charles W. Chestnut
W. E. Burghardt DuBois
William Stanley Barthwaite
Paul Laurance Dunbar
Africa
Moton
Tuskegee
United States
Noctor Leads Condemnation of Klan at Ohio Dem Convention
T J Noctor chaired the Hamilton County delegation and led the resolution condemning the Klan in the Ohio State Democratic convention. He obtained adoption in the Resolutions Committee and defended the plank on the floor against Judge Spence using parliamentary moves. The report also notes a separate victory for teachers with a tenure plank backed by Robert N Gorman and the Hamilton County Teachers Association after three years of effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. J. Noctor
Hamilton County
Resolutions Committee
Second
Nector
Judge Spence
Elizabeth
Ohio
Robert N. Gorman
Teachers of
Hamilton County Teachers’ Association
Schomburg Dinner Celebrates Negro Scholar A A Schomburg
A. A. Schomburg of New York City, head of the Wall Street Bank foreign correspondence, Grand Secretary of the New York Masons, and President of the American Negro Academy, lectured on The Negro's Place Among the World's Great Painters at a Y dining room gathering. Attendees included DeHart Hubbard and other prominent figures. many were noted as absent. The Crescent Club had previously hosted him the night before.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. A. Schomburg
New York City
Foreign Correspondence Department
Wall Street Bank
Masonic Fraternity of
New York
American Negro Academy
Schomburg
Porto Rico
W. P. Dabney
Jas H. Thompson
BE. L. Thomas
Coal Co
Chas. Davis
M. L. Zeigler
Ziegler Schafer Co
John H. Johnson
B. W. Overton
Wm O. H. Ross
Louis A. Cornish
DeHart Hubbard
H. M. Higgins
van Clinton
Countland Lewis
Jesse Woodson
B. F. Smith
Park St. Church
B. H. Oxley
St. Andrews
Wilbur Page
Union Bapist Church
Union
Chas A. Schooley
Jas. H. Robinson
Negro Civic Welfare Committee
J. H. Page
United States Postal Association
Crescent Club
Democrats Quit Party After Ferguson Nomination In Texas
Houston report notes Democratic defectors who opposed Miriam Ferguson’s Texas governor bid and accused the party of ties to the Klan. Republicans adjourned their state executive meeting Tuesday afternoon amid the split.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
Texas
Miriam Ferguson
Temple
Felix Robertson
Dallas
Republican State Executive Committee
Wealthy Kentucky farmer bequeaths vast estate to longtime servants
The late John T. Hughes, aged 83 and one of Central Kentucky’s wealthiest farmers, leaves three loyal Negro servants the bulk of his $500,000 estate. Ellen Wilson, aNegress, receives 273 12 acres and contents of the home including antiques. Her son Robert Henry Hughes gains the Dudley farm on the nearby pike, about 160 acres valued at $300 per acre. Alex Rankin receives Hughes’ personal at-
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lexington
John T. Hughes
Kentucky
Bluegrass
Lexington-Paris Road
Ellen Wilson
Robert Henry Hughes
Dudley
Alex Rankin
Hughes
Hughes Will Reveals Kentucky Thoroughbred Ties and Racial Notes
The Hughes will names Rankin as a lifelong employee and grants the Ware farm to him for life with a remainder to Robert Henry Hughes, a famed Kentucky breeder. Hughes, a reclusive pioneer family member, never married and was known for horse breeding and wealth. Ellen Davis, his longtime servant, inherits from Hughes and is surrounded by notable estates and horse farms in the Lexington area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rankin
Ware
Robert Henry Hughes
Ellen Davis
Hughes
Kentucky
Lexington
Chestnut Street
John T. Hughes
Brutes In Blut Title Sparks Call for Change in Local Administration
A charged article claims a black boy faced brutal third degree treatment by police. The piece asserts a public inquiry will shock citizens and urges immediate administrative reform for a fair city.
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Noctor
Mrs. Ferguson
Roosevelt
Rex Fagram
Lewis Stbhe
Alice Terry
Ramon Navarro
Cox Theatre
Rex Ingram
Metall Industrial School
Succubus
W. J. Decatur
Green Hills
James B. Haggin
California
Joseph and
George Widener
Philadelphia
John E. Madden
Hamburg Place
August Belmont
Nursery
Phil Chinn
Himyar
Walter Jeffords
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