Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1909 — WONT RECEIVE WHITE WIFE [ARTICLE]

WONT RECEIVE WHITE WIFE

Pugilist Johnson’s Matrimonial Venture Stpps Galveston Celebration. Galveston, Tex., March 16. —The home coming of the colored pugilist, Jack Johnson, is creating much excitement among negroes here. Committees have been selected and they are preparing to meet Johnson at the train with a band and a long line of carriages for a parade. Dispatches indicate that the lighter is accompanied by a white wife and, according to leaders of the reception committee, if this is found to bo true Galveston colored folk will show their disapproval by calling off the entertainment arrangements. Committeemen say that they consider the marriage of Johnson to a white woman to be in violation of the laws and customs of the country of his birth.