1919 Papers

New! Race, Riots, and Reporting

Omaha: A City in Ferment: Summer of 1919 by Michael Lawson

Omaha Riot of 1919 by Steven Willborn and Richard C.and Katherine Stuart Schmoker

TOM DENNISON, THE OMAHA BEE AND THE 1919 OMAHA RACE RIOT By Orville D. Menard

Nebraska State Journal Lincoln - September 24, 1919

Nebraska State Journal Lincoln - September 28, 1919

Nebraksa State Journal Lincoln - September 29, 1919

Nebraska State Journal Lincoln - September 29, 1919 - Page 2

Nebraska State Journal Lincoln - September 30, 1919

Nebraska State Journal - Courthouse Picture

Omaha Bee	Omaha World Herald
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June 4, 1919 Young Girl Robbed, Throttled, Assaulted, by Negro In Bluffs - First Page Headline: Hunt Band of Anarchists Police Bending Every Energy to Find Terrorists Each of Eight cities Visited by Destructive Bomb Agents Thoroughly Combed for Suspects by Secret Service and Federal Operatives; Philadelphia Believed Headquarters of Nihilst Group	June 4, 1919 Bluffs Woman Escapes Attacking Black Man - First Page Headline: Search Nation Over for Bomb Throwers Police Hunt for Anarchists in Terrorist Plot Secret Service Officials Convinced of Common Source of Outages NoDefinite Evidence as to Members of Gang Attorney General Palmer Says Government Will Continue War on Reds
June 19, 1919 Negro in Winter Suit Steals a Palm Beach; Says He Was Hungry - Page
June 20, 1919 Evidence in the Brown Case Shows Proof Demanded by Mayor Has Been Furnished The Mayor Wants to Know if the Brown Glats Had Been Entered ant Its Occupants Arrested without a Warrant - The Evidence Shows it Was - He Wanted tp Know if Mrs. Brown Was Dragged From Her Home at Midnight and Thrown in Jail Without Bond - The Evidence Shows She Was - First Page Woman Is Attacked on Her Way Home by Unidentified Man - First Page Headline: Concentrate for Hun Smash	June 20, 1919 Attempted Assault First Page First Booze Arrest First Page Headline: Paris Hears That Germans Will Sign the Treaty Orlando Resigns After Deputies' Adverse Vote Italian Crisis Raises Another Peace Problem Roman Chamber Denies Confidence in Government by 259 to 78 Test King Victor Reserves Acceptance of Action Premier Had Just Announced Economic Questions of Nation Near Solution
June 22, 1919 Police and Read Coats Fight Winnipeg Strikers Headline:New German Cabinet Formed Bauer and Mueller Heads of Ministry Dr. Eduard David Loses Premiership to Former Minister of Labor, Becoming Finance head and Vice Premier	June 22, 1919 Winnipeg Riot Headline: Herr Bauer Heads New German Cabinet Friend of Labor Chosen Premier - Muller Second Leader Won Place as Adjuster of Big Strike in Berlin Foreign Minister No Friend of Ex-Kaiser David, Erzberger and Noske Among Well Known Men Placed
June 27, 1919 Hang Negro on Tree Underneath Which He Assaulted White Girl - Page 1 Police Inefficiency is Cause of Another Drowning Accident - Page 5 Wants Marriage Annulled; Says Child Colored Headline: Treaty Hangs in Balance Weakness of Hun Government Recognized Signing of Pact May Mean Little More Than Did Bolshevik Fiasco at Brest-Litovsk Defiant German Note Unfavorably Received No Provision Made as to Teutons Must Ratify Agreement with Allies	June 27, 1919 Negroes Take Part in Lynching Negro (Page 1) Says Wive Negro; Asks Marriage Annulled (Page 2) Asks that Husband Be Locked up 100 Years (Page 3) Headline: Russ Reds Send Millions for U.S. Plots Federal Bureau Asks Big Sum to Combat Bombers Department of Justice Official Asserts Unlimited Funds Flowing Over Bolsheviki Aim Blow at Government Declares Organized Effort on Foot - Radicalism on Increase Here
June 30, 1919 Pastor Traces Progress of the Black Race - Page 2 Headline: Offers Self Up for Kaiser Hollweb Takes Blame for War and Asks Trial Former German Chancellor Assumes All Responsibility for Acts of Huns During Office Puts Himself Wholely at the Disposal of Allies Request Made in Communication to Premier Clemenceu of France	June 30, 1919 Headline: Hollweb Asks Trial Instead of Kaiser Ex-Minister Anxious for Martyr Role Former German Chancellor Assumes Responsibility of Nation's Deeds Places Himself at Disposal of Allies
July 12, 1919 Whites Lynch Five Negros in Long View, Texas (Page 1) Headline: Raise Hun Blockade Today Ban Upon Commerce Removed Action Taken Promptly by Allied Council of Five After Receiving Official Notice of Ratification of Treaty U.S. Will Issue Blanket Licenses Three Ships Loaded and Ready to Sail for Germany; Direct Steamship Lines to Hamberg and Bremen are Projected	July 12, 1919 Texas Guardsmen Check Race Clash Headline: Allies Raise German Blockade Today Plans for Trade Renewal Already Near Perfection Blanket Licenses to Be Issued for Transactions of American Firms Potash is Still Under Ban Under Treaty Limit in Dealings Only Amount of Credit Germans Able to Establish
July 22, 1919 Headline: Black and Whites Killed in Race Rioting In Washington	July 22, 1919 Big Race War Brings Death to Fighters (Page One) Burning Dirigible Falls Upon Chicago Bank Mobs of Whites Kill Negooes in Washington Treaty Passes on Third Reading In Commons
July 23, 1919 Headline: Race Riots Breakout Anew	July 23, 1919
July 24, 1919 Headline: Taft Criticizes President Suggests New Plan on League
July 27, 1919
July 29, 1919 Headline: Seven Killed In Race Riots Black Belt in Chicago Shambles	July 29, 1919 Headline: Chicago Mayor Asks for Troops Thompson Pleads For Guardsmen in "Black Belt" Takes Action only When Evident City Police Force is Inadequate Ten Dead, 100 Wounded in Resumption of Race Riots
July 30, 1919 Headline: Chicago Race War Toll is 27	July 30, 1919
	July 30, 1919 The Birth of a Nation Must Not Show Here
July 31, 1919 Headline: Troops Patrolling Chicago	July 31, 1919
August 1, 1919 Headline: Wilson Shocked into Action Considers High Cost of Living Government Machinery Set in Motion in Response to Demands from Public that Soaring Prices be Reduced Trainmen's President Layw Down the Law W.G. Lee Says Increase in Waages Not Proper Solution of Present Economic Hardships of Working People
August 12, 1919 Negro Taken for Attempted Assault Rescued from Mob Headline: Ishi Playes Shrewd Game	August 12, 1919 Valuable Old Coins Get Negro in Trouble (Three) Headline: Reds May Overwhelm All Russia Fall of Kolchak is Forecase in Danish Report Collapse of Anit-Bolshevik Move Threatens as Allies Withhold Supprt Falls back 200 Miles May have to Quit Omsk Officials Believe Only Radical Teasures Will Save Siberia From Reds
August 17, 1919 Dead Negro's Teeth Filled with Diamonds Attacks Child After Trying to Assault Woman Headlines: Wilson Fights Reservations	August 17, 1919 Negroes Aid Search for Girl's Attacker Headline: Wilson Men Ask Pack Be Brought Out Unchanged
August 19, 1919 Nebraksa Farmer Murders Justice: Nearly Lynched Headline: Expect Aviators Back Today	August 19, 1919 Headline: White House Treaty Talk today


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August 31, 1919 Soldiers Turn Rapid Fire Gun On Blacks Headline: Races Fighting In Knoxville	August 31, 1919 Tennessee Mob Goes Wild When Foiled At Jail
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September 2, 1919 Knoxville Quiet after Two Days of Rioting Headline: Caranza Upbraids America Declares Mexico is Maligned	September 2, 1919 Headline: Wilson refuses Senate Draft of Austrailian Treaty
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