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246 THE CRISIS onwards, a Negroid element in the broadest sense of the word shared in this artistic culture as seen on both sides of the Pyrenees." GHETTO THE Negro Business League of Savannah, Ga., has employed council to disclose the barbarities of the chain gang. It has been shown that one convict, Youngblood, died from a flogging that he received at the hands of a brutal guard. The colored people of Ypsilanti, Mich., are fighting color segregation in their schools and have been refused redress by the Board of Education and the Attorney General. From Philadelphia we learn that colored women have been admitted to some of the classes of the Central Branch of the Y. M. C. A., and to the gymnasium of the Central Branch of the Y. W. C. A. At the same time in Newport, R. I., the Y. M. C. A. is trying to get rid of all her colored members and to refuse admission to persons of Negro descent. One of the pettiest instances of discrimination comes from Ames, Iowa. At the annual meeting of the State Horticultural Society there was an intercollegiate fruit judging contest between the schools at Ames, and the Universities of Missouri and Nebraska. During the contest the University of Missouri team withdrew because William Cain, a Negro, was a member of the Ames team, and numbered to take part. The Ames team won the contest over Nebraska. At Ashdown, Ark., Fred Edwards, a white youth, of Texarkana, has been sentenced to ninety-nine years in prison for attacking a colored girl. At Downingtown, Pa., Mrs. Rebecca Simms, a colored woman, has been committed to prison for refusing to send her two daughters to a Jim Crow school. She was fined $4.40 but declined to pay it. All honor to Mrs. Simms. Civil rights cases have come up in several states: In New York, the cafe proprietors who lost their case before the Appellate Court, have been further prevented from evading the adjudged damages of $1,000; in Topeka, Kan., Negroes have appealed to the County Attorney for their rights in theatres; in California a judgement of $50 and costs has been won against a theatre in Oakland for discrimination; in Chicago, the doorkeeper of the Franklin Theatre has been adjudged guilty of discriminating against two colored persons; on Staten Island, N. Y., E. L. Bush won a judgment of $100 against a lunch wagon which discriminated. The Texas Supreme Court has refused to rule that Negroes cannot ride on Pullman cars. The Pennsylvania lower courts have sustained a Jim Crow school in Media. The excuse was that all the colored children were "backward." A colored lawyer, Mr. G. Edward Dickerson, cross-examined the principal and asked him "How did he classify a six-year-old colored child who had never been to school?" The good principal replied, "By the rest of his family. They were all backward, so I judged he would be backward, too." One of the teachers was asked, "If some of these so-called retarded students had averages of eighty and higher on the certificates, which some of the teachers issued." The reply was, "Yes, but they didn't mean anything, they were only issued to encourage them." "But what about the certificates issued to the white children?" was asked. "Oh, they were all right," was the answer. The residential segregation law was again been brought to the courts in Atlanta, Ga. The legislatures of Washington and Wisconsin have anti-marriage laws before them. Kansas is discussing a measure for separate Negro schools in the smaller cities. Additional Jim Crow legislation for street cars is being discussed in Charleston, S. C. A colored physician, Dr. Roscoe Giles, who stood at the head of the eligible list, has, after much argument, been appointed junior physician at the Tuberculosis Hospital, Chicago, Ill. Some of the patients protested and he has since been ousted. Two hundred striking Negro miners at the Banner Mines, near Birmingham, Ala., have refused to come out of the mines or to allow anyone to enter. The men are convicts and have quantities of dynamite. They complain of ill treatment. Baltimore whites have been protesting against the site chosen for the new colored Y. M. C. A. So far their protest has been in vain. New Orleans whites have been protesting against the site of a Negro sanitarium. Dynamiting of the better class of Negro homes has been resumed in Kansas City, Mo. Within a few weeks the home of Ben- THE HORIZON 247 jamin Williams, 2914 Woodland Avenue, has been dynamited twice. In St. Louis, Mo., on the basis of possible segregation when the Supreme Court gives its decision, the price of building lots to Negroes has been doubled. The Olive Street Terrace Realty Company is selling 25-foot lots in the subdivision at an average of $150 to white persons and reselling them at an average of $300 to Negroes, and is doing so well that it has just moved from the Merchants-Laclede Building to larger quarters in the Boatmen's Bank Building. [[Image]] E. A. Charleston Voice of Congo: "If your uncle had left us our hands, Albert, we could be of more use to you now!"
