3 10 423 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Student Name Emma Alvarez Summary After working for weeks to get evidence “that would warrant us in making descent on places where ‘big games’ are played,” a slew of black gambling houses are shut down and those inside are sent to jail. Item Type Article Image No URL https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RP19080919&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Topic Crime and Justice Times Repeated Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound Acting under direct orders from Governor Fort and Supreme Court Justice Trenchard, District Attorney Goldenberg and County Detective Baitzel led a posse of twenty-five special detectives sent to Atlantic City from Newark and cleaned out three of the principal negro gambling dives of the resort. More than fifty men, including one proprietor and half a score of managers and dealers, were hauled to police headquarters and placed in cells. The raids were made entirely over the heads of the local police department, who knew nothing even of the intention of the county prosecutor to start his crusade. Guns, knives and police clubs were used in the fights incident to the arrests. In the joint of Smith, Dykes and Offler, on Surf place, thirty men were caught, and at least two-score managed to get away by diving through windows. Orders had been issued by Prosecutor Goldberg that no bail was to be accepted for any of those arrested, on the ground that Sunday bail bonds are not legal. But active politicians routed out of their beds after midnight, managed to rake up bonds and secure the release of virtually all of the gamblers. “We aim simply to make gambling a lost art in Atlantic City,” declared the prosecutor. “We had evidence enough to have raided a score of negro gambling houses, but it was my idea not to put the county to too much expense.” Asked why gambling houses run for the benefit of wealthy white visitors were not included in the raid, the district attorney said: “We have worked for five weeks to get evidence that would warrant us in making descent on places where ‘big games’ are played. My men have been unable to get into any of the suspected houses, and if they are running games at all, it is virtually impossible to secure evidence that would warrant raids.” Location Upper Left Quadrant Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Sept7 1908 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <i>Richmond Planet</i> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1908-09-19 Title A name given to the resource Order Raid on Gambers Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Student Name Emma Alvarez Summary Winfield Cozart and his wife file a complaint against the Southern Railway Company for discrimination and being forced to ride in a “Jim Crow car.” Item Type Article Image No URL https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RP19080912&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Topic Crime and Justice Times Repeated Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound Washington, D.C. Post, Sept. 4th. - Winfield F. Cozart, colored of Atlantic City, N.J., yesterday filed a formal complaint with the interstate commerce commission against the Southern Railway Company, in which he charges that the company discriminated against him and his wife while they were passengers on a train from Atlanta to Washington, by compelling them to ride in a “Jim Crow” car. He states that men and women were crowded together in a smoking compartment, which was unsanitary, and that towels, soap, and other conveniences furnished white passengers were denied him and his wife. He asked the commission to issue an order requiring the railway company to furnish the same accommodation to Negroes as is furnished to white persons. The commission, about a year ago, decided that railroads could segregate colored passengers, but must provide for them the same accommodations as for white passengers. Location Lower Left Quadrant Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Sept4 1908 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <i>Richmond Planet</i> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1908-09-05 Title A name given to the resource Complaints Against Southern Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Student Name Emma Alvarez Summary In response to the mob outbreaks and Springfield race riots, a group of black citizens fight back “like Turks.” Item Type Article Image No URL https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RP19080905&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Topic Crime and Justice Times Repeated Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound It has been admitted that the colored people of Springfield, Illinois fought “like Turks” and wounded many of the mob. Some colored folks were armed with revolvers, shot guns and well-nigh every available weapon that could inflict injury in any kind of contest. This is the proper spirit. While many colored people lost their property and some were killed and injured, the long list of white people, who were wounded bear mute testimony to the determination and ability of the colored folks of Springfield, Illinois to give as good as was sent. This is the only way to convince these hoodlums that it does not pay to join a mob. It is the only way to put a stop to such lawlessness. We are forced to the conclusion that the police force of Springfield is largely responsible for the outbreak. Had the hoodlums been Negroes, the affair would have been over in half an hour and the ring-leaders would have been in the jail, where they belonged. Every law-abiding colored man should own a good repeating rifle for hunting purposes. He should also have a shot gun for small game. In case of a riot by either white or colored people, he will then be in a position to join with the better class of white people and put down this kind of lawlessness. The time will yet come, when it will be definitely ascertained that the criminal, vicious, immoral white and colored elements are a positive menace to a community and all citizens regardless of color should aid in either their annihilation or transportation where they can do neither harm nor injury. When a thief is about to steal, he is not particular as to whether the money he is after belongs to a white man or a Negro. This is as true of the Negro thief as it is of the white one. The same is true where the mob holds sway. The criminal elements use this or that as an excuse for their depredations. The have no genuine sympathy for the victim of particular antipathy to the criminal. They want to see a show and the most interesting one available is a hanging, where the suffering of the victim is satisfaction and the screams of pain make music for the ear. The best way to deal with a mob is to shoot the life out of it. Lynch-law must go! Location Lower Left Quadrant Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Sept1 1908 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <i>Richmond Planet</i> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1908-09-05 Title A name given to the resource Springfield Colored Folks and the Mob Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Student Name Emma Alvarez Summary The yard-conductor at Byrd Street Station allegedly stole multiple pairs of shoes. The Planet compares his punishments for stealing with that of a black man. Item Type Article Image No URL The yard-conductor at Byrd Street Station allegedly stole multiple pairs of shoes. The Planet compares his punishments for stealing with that of a black man. Topic Crime and Justice Times Repeated Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound Harry Marshall, yard conductor at the Byrd Street Station, was arrested early last night while in the act, it is alleged, of stealing a quantity of shoes from cases in the freight depot. He was seen by Special Officer Perkins, who made over to Policeman Atkinson. Marshall is twenty-six years old, and hales from Manchester. The evidence seems to be against him, as five pair of shoes and two pair rubbers were found in his possession. He took his arrest calmly, and had little to say. Does this indicate that all white men steal shoes when they get a chance or that only a few of them are guilty of these criminal indiscretions? We have our opinion, but ask that the same tape line be used in measuring the chicken-stealing Negro that is employed in getting the dimensions of the shoe-stealing white man. Further comment is unnecessary. Location Upper Left Quadrant Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Aug9 1908 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <i>Richmond Planet</i> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1908-08-15 Title A name given to the resource Yard Conductor Alleged Thief Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Student Name Emma Alvarez Summary The Planet condemns the unreasonable and vicious killing of black people, declaring that nowadays “human life is too cheap and the violation of fundamental laws too common.” Item Type Article Image No URL https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RP19080808&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Topic Crime and Justice Times Repeated Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound “Let this be a warning to you niggers to let white people alone, or you will go the same way. Hugh Rogers better shut up or quit.” These were the words in a note pinned upon the body of one of the colored men lynched at Russellville, Kentucky, Saturday August 1, 1908 for the simple reason that they were alleged to have approved of the killing of James Cunningham, white by Rufus Browder, colored. The accused men were not even given an opportunity to pray and two of them were hanged in their night shirts. As a matter of fact, there is not statute in any state, under which these men, whose lives were taken could even have been convicted of a misdemeanor. As a matter of fact, there is no statute in any state, under which these men, whose lives were taken could even have been convicted of a misdemeanor. It is difficult to believe that in a land of civilization where the teaching of Jesus Christ are presumed to be accepted that men would be guilty of such a heinous crime as this. Human life is too cheap and the violation of fundamental laws too common. It is useless to ask if the lynchers will be punished. The opportunity was lost when the colored men were placed in jail. In some sections of the Southland there is nothing left for a colored man to do when he is charged with crime but to die fighting. In this connection, it may be well to note the following telegraphic report from Pittsburgh, Pa. “W.H. Hall, a youthful cowboy with long flowing hair, was watching the Allegheny River regatta yesterday on the wharf. Nearby was W.F. Thomas, a colored teamster of the Pittsburg Coal Company. The latter stepped up to the Texan and asked: “Say, it that your real hair?” The youthful Texan answered: “Down in Texas we shoot niggers for asking fool questions.” Soon the two clinched. They fell overboard and continued the fight. Policeman Tobin flashed them out of the mud and water and took them to a patrol box. “Before the wagon came the cowboy pleaded for a chance to get a shot at the Negro. He said: “This is a terrible disgrace to be arrested for fussing with a nigger when I should have plugged him. Down in Texas when a niggers asks a personal question we use a 44 and fill him full of holes and don’t get arrested for it either. Please send some one to the show and get me out of this quick.” “Before Judge Brady at central police station the cowboy again asked why he could not shoot the Negro as he would have done in Texas and teach him his place. Judge Brady fined both for fighting and made the cowboy promise that he would not use his gone.” This will give the average mind an opportunity to realize and understand the embarrassing conditions now existing in the Southland. It seems that there is no power to check these manifestations of the innate hatred of one of the kindliest races of people on the face of the globe. Liberal minded white men in all sections, both north and south seem to be doing their best in this direction, but the results are often gloomily disappointing. Location Upper Right Quadrant Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Aug5 1908 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <i>Richmond Planet</i> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1908-08-08 Title A name given to the resource Killing Negroes Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Student Name Emma Alvarez Summary A black man is charged with assaulting a woman and arrested. A mob attacks the jail but is threatened by a sheriff and 12 deputies who fail to save the man from being lynched. Item Type Article Image No URL v Topic Crime and Justice Times Repeated Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound Leander Shaw, colored was charged with assaulting Mrs. Lillian Davis near Pensacola, Florida. He was placed in the county jail at that pace and a mob formed and proceeded to storm the jail. The sheriff was aided by twelve deputies. He warned the mob not to persist in its efforts as he would keep his sworn obligation and defend the jail at any cost. He kept his word and when the men composing this lawless body made the attack upon the jail, he opened fire with revolvers and riot guns. The effect was deadly. Three of the attacking party were killed and many more wounded. The mob was reinforced and scaled the walls, covering the deputies and the bold sheriff with guns and removing the prisoner. They hanged the colored man to an electric light pole, it is indeed gratifying to note that another southern sheriff has had a chance to demonstrate to the country the stuff that is in him. Alonzo Williams, colored, was lynched at Lyons, Georgia, July 16, 1908. Location Lower Left Quadrant Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Aug3 1908 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <i>Richmond Planet</i> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1908-08-01 Title A name given to the resource The Sheriff Fired Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Student Name Emma Alvarez Summary Charged with stealing, “a colored giant” is sent to the Henrico County jail, though there was a lack of strong evidence proving his guilt. Item Type Article Image No URL https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RP19080704&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Topic Crime and Justice Times Repeated Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound Flimsy evidence - no one of several witnesses being able to state an exact time of the crime - today sent William Dandridge, a colored giant, to the Henrico County jail for thirty days. Dandridge, who stands six feet seven and weighs above three hundred pounds, was charged with stealing two planks valued at fifty cents. The charges were brought by Frank Ford, a merchant of the county, who state on the witness stand that he knew nothing of the man’s connection with theft. J.C. Deal from whom Dandridge claims to have gotten the planks, got mad when questioned about the theft, but stated on the witness stand that he had allowed the man to take away some stove wood. Another young white man states that he saw the giant walk off with some planks, but he could give no testimony of their length, and the most damaging evidence was that in which a colored man named Hopkins said that he saw the prisoner with two planks under his arm, one of which dragged the ground. As soon as sentence was passed upon him, Dandridge dived into his pockets for his fine, and frowned when told that money would do no good. He had thirty days flat. The big giant quietly submitted to the sentence with the remark, “I didn’t steal nothing, and I’ve to go to jail for something I didn’t do.” Some of those who testified against the man made statements that his character for honesty is good, and that he had never in many year been guilty of a questionable act. Ford had offered a reward for the capture of the person stealing his wood, and while no one has claimed it, it may be that some person may be heard from now that Dandridge is in jail. James Russell, a lawyer, was engaged to prosecute the colored man, who had no lawyer and whose only method of defense was his feeble method of questioning. Dandridge was once offered a position, he says by “Mr. Pete Barnum.” He claims to have been born in Goochland, and is thirty-one years old. He employed a colored man through his cell bars to hoe his corn while he is at work, and has a wallet full of money to purchase whatever he may need in the way of tobacco and edible during his stay in jail. “They’ll have to feed me by the yard,” he remarked, “I’m a big man and a monstrous eater.” Location Upper Right Quadrant Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context July2 1908 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <i>Richmond Planet</i> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1908-07-04 Title A name given to the resource Giant Convicted on Very Flimsy Evidence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Student Name Emma Alvarez Summary The Virginia Supreme Court’s decision on the People’s Pleasure Park Company trial “makes a citizen feel, whatever his race or color may be that he can get justice in this commonwealth,” and allows for black people to own and operate businesses. Item Type Article Image No URL https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RP19080620&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Topic Crime and Justice Times Repeated Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound A decision of far-reaching importance was rendered by the Supreme Court of Appeal of Virginia, sitting at Wytheville. It was the case of People’s Pleasure Park Company, Inc. vs. Rohledger. The Circuit Court of Henrico, Judge R. Carter Scott, presiding was reversed. This was the case where the colored company purchased Fulton Park as a pleasure resort and the white people of the neighborhood objected to the sale and instituted proceedings to prohibit the use of the park by colored people. An injunction was sued out before Judge R. Carter Scott and granted to be effective, when the bond specified therein was furnished. The case was finally heard upon its merits and the injunction made perpetual. Messrs, Smith, Moncure and Gordon were counsel for the defendants and it was by the persistent efforts of that firm that the far-reaching decision was rendered. The Supreme Court has thus decided that the injunction should not have been granted. The opinion was handed down Thursday, June 11, 1908. We call attention to the fact that this decision is of more far-reaching importance to the colored people of this State that any that has been rendered by the Supreme Court of the United States. It makes a citizen feel, whatever his race or color may be that he can get justice in this commonwealth. Race prejudice will not be permitted to interfere with the issuance of that even-handed justice for which this State is noted. It also establishes beyond cavil the fact that a Negro’s property rights are as safe in Virginia as they are in any other State of the Union and that so long as he exercises his rights in a lawful way he will be protected in the exercise and enjoyment of those rights. We have always had a high opinion of our Supreme Court but now we feel that those rights that we cannot get through the decisions of that tribunal, we are ready to go without. Location Upper Left Quadrant Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context June10 1908 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <i>Richmond Planet</i> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1908-06-20 Title A name given to the resource An important Decision https://blackvirginia.richmond.edu/files/original/e06042a4eb7f2dd659f740064ad38581.png 274224cd5021f610800ff08fee9d5e89 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Student Name Emma Alvarez Summary When playing with friends, a 12 year old boy gets stuck in a mountain-top tunnel and confidently directs a fireman on how to properly rescue him. Item Type Article Image Yes URL https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RP19080620.1.3&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Topic Crime and Justice Times Repeated Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound New York.--- Nicholas Buckstein, 12 years old, owes his life as much to his own coolness as to the efforts of firemen who dug him out of a small tunnel in a cliff 40 feet above One Hundred and Fifty-second street, in which he was pinned by a four-ton boulder. Buckstein and other boys made a playground of what they called McComb’s mountain, a rocky cliff in West One Hundred and Fifty-second street, between Seventh avenue and McComb’s Dam road. Here the rock rises at an angle of approximately 60 degrees from the street, and on the summit the boys built stone forts. Recently they decided to become cave dwellers in a gravel pocket 40 feet about the street they started to tunnel. Buckstein resumed work as soon as school was out, and was busy five feet from the mouth of the tunnel when John Scanlon noticed a four-ton rock that was above the tunnel was sinking. He yelled to Buckstein to come out, but his companion was slow in starting, and the boulder settled, pinning him upon his back and resting across his feet and right arm. Immediately the boys began to call for help, and at the foot of the cliff a crowd assembled, including the imprisoned boy’s mother, who became hysterical. After various plans of rescue had been discussed the fire department was summoned. Men of truck 28, under Acting Battalion Chief Tonvey, found it difficult to remove the rock, because the steepness of the cliff gave them small chance for a foothold. Steel bars were placed under the boulders, ropes attached and orders were about to be given to haul away when the lad yelled to Tonvey: “I am on my back with my feet and right arm caught. If you move the rock to the left I can get out. If you move it the other way it will smash me all up.” Tonvey followed the boy’s directions and when the rock was lifted four inches the boy scrambled out. Then investigation showed that had his directions not been followed he would have been killed in the rescue. Location Upper Right Quadrant Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context June8 1908 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <i>Richmond Planet</i> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1908-06-20 Title A name given to the resource Boy Directs Own Rescue Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Student Name Emma Alvarez Summary A quarrel between Chester Reighard and policeman R.J. Werner of Altoona, Pennsylvania, leads to a fight and unexpected death. Item Type Article Image No URL https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RP19080516&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Topic Crime and Justice Times Repeated Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound Altoona, Pa., May 13- Chester Reighard of this city, connected with one of the prominent families of western Pennsylvania was shot and killed almost instantly by R.J. Werner, a policeman with whom he had quarreled. Reighard with three companions met the policeman about 3 A.M. and were ordered to go to their homes by Werner. Later the policeman again met Reighard and a young man named Madden at Seventh avenue and Fifteenth street, and after again requesting them to go to their homes the men attacked him. In the rough and tumble fight that ensued Werner used his club to good effect and Reighard and Madden broke away and run. Werner called to them to stop and then shot, as he claims, to frighten them. The ball struck Reighard in the spine and he died on the sidewalk in two or three minutes. Reighard was thirty years old and leaves a wife and two children. He was a nephew of L.S. Reighard, one of Altoona’s most prominent businessmen and of D.P. Reighard, of Pittsburg, a millionaire oil man. Location Upper Right Quadrant Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context May9-Killed by a Policeman Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <i>Richmond Planet</i> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1908-06-16 Title A name given to the resource Killed by a Policeman