Excerpt from Work of the Colored Law and Order League, Baltimore, MD
With the colored people here in Baltimore it was for a long time a common topic of conversation. True, Balti more had no incendiary press to inflame the passions of the poor whites of the city, nor had she a class of hysterical women to take fright at the sudden appearance of a black face, nor was there here that loose attitude toward law and order which permits the disorderly elements of the popula tion to disregard and defy the authorities in their enforce ment of the laws of the city and State. But there were sections of the city, where the colored people in large num bers reside, infested with saloons kept principally -by white men of the lowest type; there were dens of vice in too large numbers scattered throughout the city - all of which were exercising a demoralizing effect upon the colored youth and furnishing schools of crime for colored children. These places appeared to have a quasi-police protection, and as it appeared later, in the testimony before the Liquor License Board, at least one policeman regarded the saloons about which there had been complaint from the best citizens of the town, white and black, as less troublesome than the colored churches in the neighborhood.
There were saloons of the lowest type in the most. Densely populated colored residence neighborhoods, and some of the public schools were within 300 feet of from two to eight of them. It was such conditions as these that laid the foundation for the trouble in Atlanta, and surely the existence of similar conditions in Baltimore justified the apprehensions felt by many of Baltimore’s best colored Citizens.
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