WHITE GIRL AND NEGRO POET
WHY POLICE TURNED OUT 10C0 DANCERS. . ' NEW YORK, May 19.—Former : Chinese, mandarins, Japanese merchant I princes, Creek dancers, and a 1 glittering i array of jewelled women were crowded ' together in a motley throng at midnight •on Sixth-avenue when Captain J. j Howard, of the New York police,.turned more than 1000 dancers out oif a-dancing I hall to prevent, a white girl from dancing I with a. negro. j According to• the Liberator,- Captain Howard was actuated'by a high moral resolve to rescue Miss-Crystal /Eastman, who'is connected' with a feminist movement here, from Mr Claude McKay, a . negroi.poct with whdm'eh'e waspersiuadI cd to jazz.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 15874, 13 July 1922, Page 9
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109WHITE GIRL AND NEGRO POET Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 15874, 13 July 1922, Page 9
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