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When Angelo Herndon, 19-year-old blackamoor, went from Cincinnati to Georgia to preach Communism he forgot that in 1866, to prevent white men from seizing the government, some Georgians of his own race, aided by carpetbaggers, had passed a law making it a capital offense to "attempt to incite to insurrection." Last week in Atlanta Angelo Herndon heard himself accused of attempting to set up a "Black State," heard Georgia's white assistant solicitor general ask twelve white men to condemn him to death...
...Cincinnati one afternoon last week 60 Negro singers supplied a sequel to that long-ago concert. Wearing neat-looking vestments which Mrs. John Davison Rockefeller had given them, they appeared in Emery Auditorium, stirred a fashionable audience with their singing of difficult church music and of spirituals. Like the eleven Christians of long ago, they had come from Fisk University in Nashville, Tenn.* The first Fisk Singers made $50 from their concert in the Vine Street Church. They turned it over to refugees from the Chicago fire which broke out next day, and set out on a tour which paved...
Sixty-one years ago in Cincinnati eleven Negroes who called themselves the "Colored Christian Singers" shambled onto the platform of the old Vine Street Congregational Church. All eleven had been slaves, eaten hominy and bacon breakfasts in rude, smoky cabins, worked all day in cottonfields, sung spirituals in the light of the moon around their cabin doors. But they sang no spirituals that night in Cincinnati. Spirituals were slave songs. Accordingly they sang orthodox hymns and temperance pieces which made less impression on the audience than the rusty, ill-fitting suits the men wore and the women's dresses...
...From Cincinnati the Fisk Choir's tour takes it to Cleveland, Pittsfield, Mass., Hartford, Providence, New Haven, Boston, Worcester, Manhattan, Syracuse, Akron...
Libby Holman Reynolds came to Manhattan in 1924, the talented, pretty and vivacious daughter of an able Cincinnati lawyer whose professional abilities she was presently both to tax and to advertise. She rapidly acquired fame and a fortune estimated at $150,000 by singing "torch songs." After the death of Smith Reynolds, Libby Holman Reynolds and Albert ("Ab") Walker, Reynolds' friend and secretary, were indicted for murder; it was established that Libby Holman Reynolds was pregnant. Last November the State of North Carolina lacked evidence to prosecute its case against Mrs. Reynolds and Ab Walker. Libby Holman Reynolds went...