Today -100: June 21, 1920: Of wets, race riots, sectarian riots, and ghosts

The Anti-Saloon League is campaigning against Ohio Gov. James Cox, who they call the wet candidate for president.

Race riot in Chicago. A large group of back-to-Africa blacks have a parade, build a bonfire, and someone throws in an American flag. Some white sailors object, and away we go. One seaman and one black cop are killed. The sailors run around beating up random black people.

Another day of sectarian violence in Derry/Londonderry. 5 dead.

Suffragists think Tennessee might be the state to ratify the federal women’s suffrage Amendment, if they can get Gov. Roberts to call the Legislature into special session. A provision in the state constitution requiring a new election before the Legislature can ratify an amendment seems to have been invalidated by the US Supreme Court in its decision (see June 2) negating Ohio’s requirement of a referendum. This won’t stop Tennessee legislators from pretending that their opposition is based solely on the claim that it violates the state constitution.

An international labor-led boycott of Hungary has begun, protesting Hungary’s political repression.

The Society of Psychical Research announces that Dr. James Hyslop has indeed reported back from the Great Beyond. In fact, according to reports of various mediums, he’s barely shut up since his death last week, although the Society is being cagey about the exact content of his communiqués.

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