Monday, February 13, 2023

Today -100: February 13, 1923: Of burning crosses, assassinations, and bananas


The Ku Klux Klan burn large crosses simultaneously (11:40 pm) in 3 Long Island towns. The one in Freeport is located outside the Municipal Auditorium, where negroes are celebrating Lincoln’s birthday.

Vice President Calvin Coolidge celebrates the day and Lincoln’s “principle of the right to individual freedom” by opening a hospital at Tuskegee, Alabama exclusively for black veterans, who for some reason have had trouble getting treatment at other VA hospitals in the South. The doctors and nurses will, of course, all be white, but with black nurse-maids so that the white nurses won’t have to come into (shudder) physical contact with the black patients. At least that’s the plan...

The IRA assassinate Dr. Thomas O’Higgins, father of Irish Home Affairs Minister Kevin O’Higgins (who will be assassinated in 1927) and brother-in-law of Governor-Gen. Timothy Healy. Several armed IRAers came to his house demanding admittance, but he told them he’d had a communication indicating he shouldn’t. Oh, can we see it, they asked, so naturally he let them in...

Honduras bans immigration by negroes to work on the banana plantations.

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