Kansas City, Mo., February 1—Taking the cue from Baltimore, an ordinance has been introduced in the City Council segregating the colored people to certain neighborhoods. The proposed measure which is modeled after the Baltimore law provides that white people shall not move into colored neighborhoods and vice versa.
The penalty for violations of the measure is a fine of $100, or not less than 30 days or more than twelve months in the workhouse, or both.
The Advocate, Charleston, WV, February 2, 1911
Wow – terrible ordinances. It’s how to understand how city leaders could have done this – after the bloody war and then the amendments to the constitution, just a generation before.