Journal and Guide (Norfolk, Va.), 10 October 1931.

As we know, Black Wilsonians did not play about their children’s educations.

The Pittsburgh Courier article we saw earlier did not name the “prominent citizens” who had called for William H.A. Howard‘s removal, but the Journal and Guide laid out the nearly 70 of them in three paragraphs. (Rife with misspellings.) All the big dogs. Howard survived the coup, but died the following year.

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The signatories: James T. Teachey, Lee Simms, Jack Rountree, Alfred Robinson, Samuel H. Vick, John M. Barnes, Walter S. Hines, William Hines, Benjamin F. Jordan, John P. Battle, Linwood Barefoot, G.F. Faison, J.P. Roundtree, Nannie Best, Darcey C. Yancey, Henry Lucas, Ada Winstead, George W. Barnes, William H. Mitchell, Albert Gay, Columbia E. Artis, Charles B. Gay, Elijah L. Reid, Samuel Barnes, John Cherry, Jarrett J. Langley, George Farmer, Jasper Reid, George W. Ragin, Nazareth A. Pierce, Oliver N. Freeman, Wiley Rountree Jr., George W. Coppedge, G.C. Black, Jarrett Z. Staton, George K. Butterfield, William A. Mitchner, Joseph H. Knight, R.J. McPhail, Charles Thomas, J.W. McCowan, William H. Phillips, W.M. Edwards, William Dixon, G.H. Hatcher, John T. Coates, Thomas Batts, John Teachey, J.F. Barnes, Clarence B. Best, S.L. Barnes, Ross McCollum, Wilson Best, Neverson Green, James Whitfield, Andrew J. Townsend, E.D. Holden, James Thomas, John Parks, J.A. Tucker, Edward Hinnant, Thomas Cook, Mack D. Cannon, Barney Reid, Robert H. Sheridan, C.S. Edwards, and Henry S. Reid.