Street Women Must Leave

ID: 5874 ~ Source: "Street Women Must Leave." The Spokane Press, May 20th, 1905. ~ Creator: Courtesy of the Spokane Press.
This file appears in: “Will Be Run Out of the City”

This 1905 clipping details the second round of expulsions faced by the Black sex workers of Spokane.

This file appears in: “Will Be Run Out of the City”

By Julianna Amante
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…