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Today we have the terror of Tulsa and a cavalcade of calves. Refuse immodesty on…

June 6, 1921

• Underneath the incredibly misleading headline, “Dempsey Hurt Again; Must Quit Boxing,” comes an extremely meh story about the heavyweight champ, who has been forced to temporarily stop sparring in training while waiting for a cut above his eye to heal.

• As rain continues to fall on Pueblo, Colorado, the river reaches a new high point—Fifth and Main Street—and the death toll is estimated at 250.

• “Foremost American aviatrix” Laura Bromwell dies while performing her trademark loop-the-loop, as her aircraft falters and sends her plummeting 1000 feet to her doom.

• “Dare Devil Jack” Murphy, a parachute jumper, drowns in view of a thousand-strong crowd after jumping into an overpowering sea.

• Notorious bigamist Shubel K. Siver, who fled his wife and children to marry a Perth Amboy waitress, is arrested in a lakeside cabin near Fair Haven, Vermont.

• The Weather: Fair Monday and Tuesday; not much change in temperature.

What were Black people worried about on June 6, 1921?

Negroes in New York were urged to arm by Herbert H. Harrison, President of the Liberal League of Negro Americans, at a meeting yesterday at 135th Street and Lenox Avenue to ask for contributions to a fund to relieve the suffering caused to the negroes of Tulsa. He denied that the negroes of Tulsa were in any way responsible for the rioting, and charged that the police and troops took sides with the whites until restrained by the authorities.

“It s not only these negroes, but those everywhere in the country, of whom we are thinking,” Harrison said in asking for funds. “I am not making any predictions, but I should not be surprised if we saw three splendid race riots by next September. There may not be any in New York, but I advise you to be ready to defend yourselves. I notice that the State Government has removed some of its restrictions upon owning firearms, and one form of life insurance for your wives and children might be the possession of some of these handy implements. And it is absolutely necessary for your protection to join the Liberal League, which is carrying on a wide campaign for the interests of our race.”

Harrison branded as “a lie” reports that firing by negroes started the disturbance at Tulsa, and said that a group of fifty merely went to patrol the jail when rumors of intended violence to a negro prisoner reached their ears.

Other speakers, all of whom were colored, protested against the lynching of negroes, and declared that a white man “would only stop hurting when he felt what it meant to be hurt.”

The meeting was called ostensibly to elect a committee to go to Tulsa and investigate conditions there, but at the close Harrison asked that he and the secretary, Edgar H. Grey, be allowed to appoint it. He intimated that the names of those chosen would be concealed until after their return, “for some white man’s darkey in the back of the room might write them down,” he declared, “and then some one would be waiting for them when they got out to Tulsa.”

What were white people worried about on June 6, 1921?

Also, am I the only one who thinks that “We will permit nothing here that they do not allow in Atlantic City?” is actually a pretty low bar?

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J., June 6.—Robert Crissey, seventy-two-year-old Mayor of Somers Point, a mainland city ten miles from here on the shores of Great Egg Harbor Bay, is the storm centre of a lively community fight as the result of his general invitation to bare-legged girls in one-piece bathing suits to enjoy the city’s beaches to their hearts’ content, after censors in Atlantic City had demanded skirts on beach togs and the wearing of hosiery.

The response today turned the bay front in a scene of flashing limbs and display of shapely forms. A fringe of trees lining the beach and the Ocean City-Somers Point bridge were turned into “bleachers” from which motorists enjoyed the scenery. Traffic along the shore road, one of my main highways from this city, was tied up during the bathing hour, and there was a shortage of men at church services.

Many women residents of the Point didn’t like the situation, and they propose to take up the matter at a meeting of the Women’s Republican League tomorrow night. All they could do today was to express their opinions to husbands when they returned home.

A hundred or more devotees of the one-piece, bare-legged mode availed themselves of the Mayor’s invitation. There are no bathhouses adjacent to the beach, and many changed their attire in automobiles with curtains drawn or at the Bay View Hotel near the bridge.

Mrs. Mary North Chenowith, President of the Women’s League, and wife of a high school professor, said tonight: “We will permit nothing here that they do not allow in Atlantic City. Somers Point wants nothing immodest. The regulations at Atlantic City are fair enough, and give enough latitude in the mode of dress for any member of my sex. We will consider the question officially at our meeting tomorrow night. Until then I have nothing further to say.”

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