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Newspaper
The Union
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1923
Page
1
A preacher urges Black citizens to organize and vote to change city governance. He argues officials tolerate or ignore harmful conditions for political gain and calls for voting against prosecutors and judges who fail the community. Pastor Dr Smith, Park Street, advocates race rights and ballot power.
The Knoxville killings, beginning with the murder of Mrs. Bertie Lindsey, sparked a nationwide uproar as Maurice Mays protested his innocence. A confessor in Birmingham now admits guilt in the crimes, claiming Mays was framed and executed wrongly.
A Sunday lesson by Judge Rutherford of the International Bible Students Association at the Coliseum Exposition Park drew a record 35000 attendees amid traffic jams. The event aired nationwide by radio while a musical program preceded the address. Rutherford discussed world events and Armageddon, outlining Bible prophecy and the end of the old order.
In this article the writer analyzes the ongoing African American migration from the South, arguing wage levels and crude treatment are not the primary causes. Instead, desires for better schools and opportunities, plus economic pressures from boll weevil damage and the end of the old sharecropping system, push many Northward and Westward. The piece also highlights Dr. Jas. P. Foote of St. John A. M. E. Zion as a notable theologian and race advocate.
A preacher warns that public quiet is needed due to anti Negro sentiment stirred by the Ku Klux Klan and newspapers. He says rumors may spark a race riot, and minorities suffer most when unprepared, relying on prayer while avoiding confrontation.
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