September 25, 1913: Stage actor Charlie Chaplin began his movie - TopicsExpress



          

September 25, 1913: Stage actor Charlie Chaplin began his movie career, signing a one-year contract with Keystone Film Company for a salary of $150 per week. Baltimore, Maryland became the first U.S. city to have an ordinance "requiring the use of separate blocks for residences by white and colored people respectively", with a law going into effect creating separate zones for Whites and African-Americans to live. Similar ordinances to prohibit people from different races from living on the same city block, would soon be enacted in other Southern cities, including Atlanta, St. Louis and Birmingham, Alabama. Died: Seaborn Roddenbery, 43, U.S. Representative for Georgia, who campaigned to outlaw interracial marriages throughout the United States
Posted on: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 00:38:33 +0000

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