Dusky Belles To Hike
This file appears in: “Will Be Run Out of the City”
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”
“Will Be Run Out of the City”
Beginning early in the year of 1905, Chief of Police Leroy Cotman Waller unleashed a campaign against all “vagrants” designed to round up as many perceived undesirables as possible and place them in the city jail. As the war on crime progressed into…