Street Women Must Leave

ID: 5874 ~ Source: "Street Women Must Leave." The Spokane Press, May 20th, 1905. ~ Creator: Courtesy of the Spokane Press.

This file appears in: “Will Be Run Out of the City”

This 1905 clipping details the second round of expulsions faced by the Black sex workers of Spokane.

This file appears in: “Will Be Run Out of the City”

“Will Be Run Out of the City”

By Julianna Amante

Beginning early in the year of 1905, Chief of Police Leroy Cotman Waller unleashed a campaign against all “vagrants” designed to round up as many perceived undesirables as possible and place them in the city jail. As the war on crime progressed into…