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July 23, 1935
Atlanta Daily World
Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia
What is this article about?
Jesse O. Thomas urges Atlanta's Negro citizens to attend a NAACP meeting at Wheat St. Baptist Church to advocate for equitable bond issue allocations for schools and Battle Hill Sanatorium improvements, highlighting stark racial disparities in TB treatment and education overcrowding.
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Let's Produce the Eighth
Wonder
of the
World
By Jesse O. Thomas
During the year 1934 were discharged and 42 died.
In order there are seven wonders of the world which represent achievements or developments of extraordinary significance and in some respects condition or influence world civilization. I am proposing another wonder.
Wednesday night, at Wheat St. Baptist Church under the auspices of the N. A. A. C. P., the Negro citizens of Atlanta are invited to assemble and develop some organized sentiment to be crystallized into action in connection with the proposed Bond issue that is scheduled to be voted on September 15th. This Bond Issue includes in its schedule appropriations for sewerage disposal, for schools and for the building of a white ward at Battle Hill Sanitorium.
Negroes ought to be tremendously interested in the school proposition and the Battle Hill improvement features. According to a statement organized by Geikie W. Smith, who is a patient at Battle Hill, the death rate per hundred thousand, for white and colored patients in Fulton County, is 48 percent whites and 27.7 percent Negroes. That means that at least four and a half times as many Negroes as whites die from tuberculosis in Atlanta. According to this same authority, there are 222 beds in the white division of the sanitorium, and only 54 beds for Negroes. White deaths at the institution for the year 1934 averaged 7.5 percent those treated while Negroes averaged of 37.5.
Whites were discharged from the institution during the year, out of 253 white patients treated. Only 19 died. On colored side of the 112 treated
This is sufficient to arouse Negroes to the point that they will insist that the Bond issue provide for enlarging Negro facilities and bed capacity for Negroes as well as for whites.
The school situation is too obvious to take time to describe. Everyone knows about the double and triple sessions. Everyone is acquainted with the fact that not in a single Negro school in the city body is acquainted with the overcrowded condition which Negro children must attend school.
If a sufficient number of the tax paying Negro population in Atlanta should fill Wheat Street Church Wednesday night for the purpose of agreeing upon a program of procedure in relationship to this bond issue, so far as I am concerned, it would be the eighth wonder of the world.
Wonder
of the
World
By Jesse O. Thomas
During the year 1934 were discharged and 42 died.
In order there are seven wonders of the world which represent achievements or developments of extraordinary significance and in some respects condition or influence world civilization. I am proposing another wonder.
Wednesday night, at Wheat St. Baptist Church under the auspices of the N. A. A. C. P., the Negro citizens of Atlanta are invited to assemble and develop some organized sentiment to be crystallized into action in connection with the proposed Bond issue that is scheduled to be voted on September 15th. This Bond Issue includes in its schedule appropriations for sewerage disposal, for schools and for the building of a white ward at Battle Hill Sanitorium.
Negroes ought to be tremendously interested in the school proposition and the Battle Hill improvement features. According to a statement organized by Geikie W. Smith, who is a patient at Battle Hill, the death rate per hundred thousand, for white and colored patients in Fulton County, is 48 percent whites and 27.7 percent Negroes. That means that at least four and a half times as many Negroes as whites die from tuberculosis in Atlanta. According to this same authority, there are 222 beds in the white division of the sanitorium, and only 54 beds for Negroes. White deaths at the institution for the year 1934 averaged 7.5 percent those treated while Negroes averaged of 37.5.
Whites were discharged from the institution during the year, out of 253 white patients treated. Only 19 died. On colored side of the 112 treated
This is sufficient to arouse Negroes to the point that they will insist that the Bond issue provide for enlarging Negro facilities and bed capacity for Negroes as well as for whites.
The school situation is too obvious to take time to describe. Everyone knows about the double and triple sessions. Everyone is acquainted with the fact that not in a single Negro school in the city body is acquainted with the overcrowded condition which Negro children must attend school.
If a sufficient number of the tax paying Negro population in Atlanta should fill Wheat Street Church Wednesday night for the purpose of agreeing upon a program of procedure in relationship to this bond issue, so far as I am concerned, it would be the eighth wonder of the world.
What sub-type of article is it?
Historical Event
What themes does it cover?
Justice
Social Manners
What keywords are associated?
Bond Issue
Tuberculosis
Sanatorium
Negro Schools
Racial Disparity
Atlanta
Naacp
What entities or persons were involved?
Jesse O. Thomas
Geikie W. Smith
Where did it happen?
Atlanta, Wheat St. Baptist Church, Battle Hill Sanitorium
Story Details
Key Persons
Jesse O. Thomas
Geikie W. Smith
Location
Atlanta, Wheat St. Baptist Church, Battle Hill Sanitorium
Event Date
September 15th
Story Details
Jesse O. Thomas calls for Negro citizens to meet at Wheat St. Baptist Church to influence the bond issue vote, emphasizing needs for better TB facilities and schools due to racial disparities in death rates and bed capacity.