Dusky Belles To Hike

ID: 5873 ~ Source: "Dusky Belles to Hike." The Spokane Press, September 26th, 1903. ~ Creator: Courtesy of The Spokane Press

This file appears in: “Will Be Run Out of the City”: Racial profiling in Spokane at the Turn of the 20th Century

The first time Black sex workers were expelled from the city, stories like this 1903 article dotted the newspapers. Racist portrayals of Black people were common, and only got worse when discussing unfavored professions.

This file appears in: “Will Be Run Out of the City”: Racial profiling in Spokane at the Turn of the 20th Century

“Will Be Run Out of the City”: Racial profiling in Spokane at the Turn of the 20th Century

By Julianna Amante

Sometimes the law comes swift and unfairly as with the African American sex workers of downtown Spokane in the early 1900s.