Today -100: August 19, 1925: Of debt, anti-Semites, and segregation

Belgium agrees to pay back its war & reconstruction debt to the US over 62 years.

The Hakenkreuzler rioting against the World Zionist Congress in Vienna has caused $4 million in damage.

Maryland’s Court of Appeals recently, I guess, declared zoning laws enforcing racial segregation illegal. Also illegal: a white mob in “fine old residential sections of Baltimore” attack a black family who are trying to move into a house they just leased, as well as the white man who owns the house, who now says he’ll refund the family’s money and not lease it to black folks.

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