Street Women Must Leave
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”
“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…