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Chandler Owen

Gender:Male
Era:1910s
State:Ohio
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Biography

Chandler Owen co-edited The Messenger with A. Philip Randolph. A March 19, 1921 letter from the editors, reproduced in Frederick G. Detweiler’s 1922 study, reports that officials arrested them in Cleveland on August 4, 1918 after a speaking engagement involving the magazine’s satirical antiwar article. The editors stated that they spent two and a half days in jail. Exact physical custody endpoints and the individual final disposition are not established by this account.

Chandler Owen co-edited The Messenger with A. Philip Randolph. A March 19, 1921 letter from the editors, reproduced in Frederick G. Detweiler’s 1922 study, reports that officials arrested them in Cleveland on August 4, 1918 after a speaking engagement involving the magazine’s satirical antiwar article. The editors stated that they spent two and a half days in jail. Exact physical custody endpoints and the individual final disposition are not established by this account.

Historical record; unknown custody endpoints remain blank.

The Negro Press in the United States, pages 71 and 171.

Case

Charges: Prosecution over distribution of The Messenger and its satirical antiwar article; precise statutory charge not verified here.
Arrested: Aug 4, 1918
Sentence: The editors’ letter reports two and a half actual days in jail. No integer duration is substituted for this fractional figure, and no exact release date is invented.