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Caddo Co. OK - Newspaper
Anadarko Tribune 1924
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The Anadarko Tribune 
January 31, 1924 
page 1 column 4 

THREATS MADE BY NIGHT RIDERS 

Negroes Said to Have Been Ordered From Farms in 
Neighborhood West of Verden 

The first demonstration in Caddo county in months by night 
riders was made Wednesday night on the public highway a few 
miles west and south of Verden. Shots were fired and a 
general bedlam carried on for some time. It is thought that 
the demonstration was put on to terrorize certain negro 
families whom it is alleged had been notified to leave that 
section. Some of these notices are said to have even been 
mailed out on a Verden route. Others were posted in the 
night time. There are a number of negro farmers in Delaware 
township and most of them are said to be peaceable 
citizens. 

There are said to be negro renters on the Cleve McVey farm, 
two miles west and one mile south of Verden and shots were 
fired in front of the McVey place Wednesday night and a 
sheet of paper was tacked on a front gate post warning the 
negroes to get out at once. 

There has been an unwritten law in Verden for years against 
negro families living in that town. No negro is bold enough 
to insist on his constitutional rights in the face of this 
sentiment. On the other hand, they have been encouraged by 
many of the farmers to become tenants. 

A year or so ago two negroes were killed by white men who 
were attending a negro dance north of Verden on the Grady 
county side of the line. Since then there have been no out 
breaks between the whites and the blacks around Verden 
until Wednesday night. 

The sentiment seems to be divided among the whites as to 
whether or not the negroes are wanted in that neighborhood. 
There is always more or less trouble following cotton 
picking time. An idle negro is very much like any other 
idle man. It is this roving element, needed in large 
numbers during certain periods, that causes trouble for the 
negroes who own their homes and obey the law. 

The Anadarko Tribune 
February 14, 1924 
page 5 column 3 

NEGROES ARE LEAVING 

Negroes continue to leave this vicinity, notwithstanding 
the fact that no hostility resulted from the warning 
notices signed "White Men," warning all negroes to leave 
the vicinity by Wednesday night, were placed in mail boxes 
and on gate posts. Mary Toles, negro woman who had lived on 
her farm, one mile south of town, since the opening of the 
country, is among the latest to leave, having rented her 
farm and shipped out Tuesday. Jim Robinson, another negro 
living six miles south, has declared his intention to leave 
as soon as he can arrange his affairs to move. -- The 
Verden News.