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Rioters Attack The Negroes with Club, Gun, Torch

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city as to prevent a repetition of last night’s disorders.

Gen Dickson said that military rule had not been established and probably would not be. Mayor Mullman of East St. Louis, the adjuntant general said, asked for a declaration of military rule and this fact gave rise to the statement that it actually had been proclaimed. He said the transfer of military cases to civil courts involved so many intricacies that he was reluctant to ask the governor to proclaim martial law.

Waterloo Evening Courier and Reporter | July 3, 1917

Black Women Is Shamefully Mistreated by Her White Guard.

Submit Negroes to Torture

Stories of the Abuse Heaped on the convicts Are Shocking-- peons Are Beaten With Straps and Suspended by the Thumbs.

Montgomery, Ala., special: Several more arrests have been made in the peonage and conspiracy cases. Among them were though in L. A. Grogan, deputy sheriff of Coosa, charged with assisting in carrying Emma Paesron to condition of peonage,” which means that he used his badge and his office to delude this an dother negroes into thinking they had really been arrested for something and of J. Wilburn Harrison against whom there are fice indictments for conspiracy to injure and oppress.

The Monon [IN] News Friday, July 3, 1903

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Negro Colony Will Mark 50th Birthday

First Settlers of Southern Town Were Slaves

Mound Bayou, Miss--This all-Negro colony will celebrate the 50th anniversary of its founding, July 11-17.

Featured speakers on the program are Gov. Hugh White, J. S. Vandiver, superintendent of education, and Oscar Johnson, manager of the government cotton pool. 

First settlers of the colony came from the Mississippi plantation of Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America. The colony’s founder Isaiah T Montgomery was educated and trained on the Davis plantation. He remained on the Davis Bend plantation during the war.

Mound Bayou, near Cleveland, Miss., has a population of 835 Negroes. The mayor, B. A. Green, was graduated from Harvard Law School. Another resident, Eugene P. Booze is a leader in the Republican party organization in the state.

White persons of Mississippi often have aided the colony. The town has no jail. The celebration will not include a carnival of side shows and games but will review the founding and history of the town. Chief entertainment will be dancing with music by Negro orchestras.

Fort Madison Evening Democrat July 3, 1937

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In East St. Louis with a population of about 84,000 persons, (there was already a large negro colony and the war influx increased the proportion to an extent which caused much comments. Unrest among the whites smothered, and even flamed up last May, when in a small riot three negroes were shot and wounded, and a number beaten, but felling did not run high in general, as the negroes were merely filling vacancies, not taking the places of white men and with the article of soldiers quiet was quickly restored Race antagonism however, remained.

Hutchinson News July 3, 1917