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Page 10-The Chronicle, Saturday, February 10, The Turn Of The Century Black Pr The early twentieth cen- beaten by the mob. and tury was a time of beginn- others left the town tor ing for many black institu- good. tions. It was an era Incidents such as these studded with luminaries of compelled a group of black black historv: Booker T. men to form an organizatWashington< Mary McLeod ion to promote aggressive Bethune. W.E.B. Dubois, action against these conditMatthew Henson--but it ions. Under the leadership was also a nightmare-era of of W.E.B. DuBois, these racial violence and bruta- men met on the Canadian lityv side of Niagara Falls in ?--111 the South th ~?JunCi 190S?and?drew? izains of the Reconstruction platform for their organi whites with a dread of the ment. They demande'd coming equality, which freedom of speech, suffthey sought to destroy with rage, and abolition of all lynchings and Jim Crow distinctions based on race. LaWS. ThA QnrinnrioM Illinrtir I liv u^/1 IllgltVIU, IIII1IUI3 Betwween 1889 and 1922 riot in 1908, in which two , 3,436 people were lynched7 blacks were lynched and. 70 in the United States. Riots injured within two miles of occurred in scores of cities. the grave of Abraham "LiriThe usual pattern was that?coin, prompted the formacommunity anger was origi- tion.of another black organally directed toward one nization. On Lincoln's individual, and then be- birthday in 1909 a confercame generalized against ence was held to establish a all blacks. permanent organization to One typical example of" assist blacks. Among those ?an~earty twentieth-century - attending the meetings riot occurred in Springfield, were: W.E.B. DuBois, Ohio in 1904. During an Jane Addams, John De-$ argument, a white officer wey, William Dean Howas shot and killed by a wells, and numerous ju. ' black man. A mob gath- dges, educators, professered outside the jail where ors, and writers. the black man was being They formed the National held, gained access to the Association for thp AHvan.i jail and murdered him, -cement of Colored People afterward hanging hts body in May 1910^ ??? on a ~ telegraph pole and? Another approach to the riddling it with bullets. 7 problem of racial discord They tFen directed their was taken by Booker fT anger taward-Springfieldls?Washington, the Founder black population. In the of Tuskegee Institute. , course of the rioting eight Washington saw that1ndu~ buildings were burned, strial education, rather many black citizens were thana classical education. RllCinACt I lr%r 1 r n L>U JIIIV,33 yypaui^c . . - - ? Chestnut, the area which housed the banks, the insurance company ahd doctors' and lawyers' offices which served the black community. The eating houses sprung up to serve lunch to the black Reynolds workers. * In 1910, there were 59 black grocers "scattered throughout Winston-Salem. The largest of theftv, % according to Odell Clanton, was Winston Rucker, who owned a store at 1046 Trade Street, in the midst Of a community which hgratri^ fcnnu/n Ac Pond," beeause of-the-nearby Belo's Pond^ Rucker, according to the city directories of the era, also operated a hauling business. By 1920, there were 111 black grocers in Winston-Salem, nine black surgeons, five black owned office buildings or halls, two dentists and - seven drug stores. - ? Save on MCS Series? 33 watt two speakers, turntable warranty unsurpassed t hi-fi manufacturer. Only $499 fig If purchased separately 739.80. Our MCS Series' 33 watt component package includes a 33 watt receiver, direct-drive J turntable and two 3-way speakers > W Modular Component Systems MCS Series* warranty. Pllll ^ l/Qlr u/arfinUi r\ rv rnAib<?.<. 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