Flanner House Report Reviews Race Problem

From The Indianapolis News, Monday, August 21, 1922: Charles Lee, Flanner House superintendent, in his report to the directors said housing is one of the most acute problems confronting colored people in Indianapolis. A survey of housing conditions among white and colored poor families, found nothing among the worst homes of white people that approached conditions found frequently among the colored. He also pointed out that the opening of Douglass Park is a fine beginning in public recreation for colored people, but this park is far from the city’s northwest section where most of the colored people reside. No permanent playground has yet been provided in the area. “Many forms of commercialized amusement are closed to colored citizens of refined taste, and often the colored child is shut out from any but the most inferior kind of entertainment,” Lee said.

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“Flanner House Report Reviews Race Problem,” The Indianapolis News, 21 August 1922, p. 16:1

Organizers of Unity League Work in City

From The Indianapolis News, Thursday, August 17, 1922: Nine Indianapolis men attended a meeting yesterday evening at the Denison Hotel under the auspices of the American Unity League, an anti-Ku Klux Klan society headquartered in Chicago. The men pledged to arrange a meeting next week to organize a county chapter of the league. Indianapolis attorney Ralph Bamberger was elected spokesperson for the organization committee and was instructed to consider prominent persons, who have publicly denounced the Ku Klux Klan, to speak at a mass meeting to be held later. David Day, of Richmond, Indiana, who has charge of league organizing in Indiana, presided over the meeting. He said the league’s principal objectives are, publicizing the league’s program; reviving the teaching of true American principles in all schools; extending the work of the league; and enacting laws for uniting of America.

“Organizers of Unity League Work in City,” The Indianapolis News, 17 August 1922, p. 22:4

Weissmuller Sets Record in Opening of Big Swim Meet

From The Indianapolis Star, Friday, August 11, 1922: One of the greatest gatherings of swimming stars to assemble in the United States opened the three-day national swimming meet at the Broad Ripple Park pool yesterday with a crowd of spectators filling the grand stand and encircling the west end of the huge pool. Conditions were ideal for high grade performances and Johnny Weissmuller, the “speed king” of all swimmers, responded to the crowd’s expectations, breaking one world record, and almost equaling another which he holds. The boyish looking and acting Weissmuller gave a convincing demonstration of why he is the “world’s fastest swimmer,” and at the finish he received a round of cheers from the crowd. Helen Wainwright, of the New York Women’s Swimming Association, showed the way in the fifty-yard free style, closely pressed by local star Euphrasia Donnelly.

“Weissmuller Sets Record in Opening of Big Swim Meet,” The Indianapolis Star, 11 August 1922, p. 14:8