Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1936-06-27
Believe Me
BY Hobart T. Mitchell

~ HOBART /. Mitchell
On June 8, 1929. the U. s.
Supreme Court handed down de-
eision in which the right Of Negroes
Of the Ancient Egyptian Arabic Order
Of the Mobiles Of the Mystic Shrine"
10 use the similar name and titles,
emb!ems and regaha of the white
Shriners was upheld Miss
issippi had two Negro Senator'S
Hiram r. Revs,s, 1870 to 1871,
Blanche K. Bruce. 1875 to 1881 :.
Edward G. Walker who was elected
IN 1866 10 the Massachusetts, House
Of Representatives from Boston,
and also Charles L. Mitchell, were the
first Negroes in the history Of the
race to sit In the legislature Of any
state in the Union President
Hoover was criticized because he
failed to mention the Negro in his
inaugural address It Is esti-
mated that Negroes hold patents on
some 1000 inventions. In 1853, the
commissioner Of patents ruled and
the Attorney General of the u. s.
eoncurred that slave could neither
take out . patent on an invention
nor assign his invention to his
master. President jefferson Davis
had the confederate congress pass
q law permitting . slave to assign
his invention to his master.
Branches Bowman Of Richmond,
Virginia, won in 1925. the first
prize in q poster contest which was
open to all school children in the
city, both, white and black In
1884, the number Of people lyRched
were 15S whites and 81 Negroes
Persons lynched in Minnesota:
whites and 8 Negroes.
164o-First record Of a "Negrc
servant for life," otherwise slave,
In Virginia; His name was John
Punch. In that year three servants
Of Hugh Gwyn, a Dutchman called
Victor, a Scotchrnan named James
Gregory, and John Punch ran away.
They were captured, given thirty lash
es each. The Scotchman and the
Dutchman were condemned to serve
four years beyond their indenture-
one year 10 their masters and three to
the colony. John Punch was con-
demned to serve for life.
For the first time in the history Of
Brooklyn, N. Y, eolored man, John
H. Dickerson, acted as foreman of a
jury. This occurred in 1927 in the
Supreme Court in the trial term :.
During the Civil War, military saving
banks were established at Beaufort,
South Carolina, and Norfolk, Virginia,
in order to give the colored troops
eentered at these points an opportun-
fly to save their pay. These banks
were 50 successful that the friends of
the Negro decided to provide an OPP
portunity for all the emancipated
slaves to save their earnings. The
matter was laid before Congress, and
on March 3. 1865. by congressional en-
sctment, 1.-THE Freedmen's Savings
Bank and Trust Company was es-
tablished.
Paul Robson, Negro singer and
actor, before he was 20, won nation
al fame at Rutgers College in foot
ball. He was chosen by Walter Camp
in 1918 for the Ali-American team.
His first year school marks were phe-
nomenal--seven AS and one B. In his
Junior year he won the Phi Beta
Kappa Key.
In 1899, 2,071 Negroes received the
bachelors degree in the arts and
sciences. The first Negro to graduate
from any college was John Brown
Russwurm, who graduated from Bow
dom College in. 1926 ;. Whose faces
were like the faces of lions? Il Chron.
xIIs).
Many people gathered at Welcome
Hall Wednesday evening for meet
ing Of the Association Of Colored
Wnmen,a Cluha. At this meeting