An 18-Year-Old Vanishes in Seattle's Whitechapel, and Her Lover Is Gone
Chloe Jackson, who came west from New Orleans last fall, disappeared at midnight Saturday. Seattle's Black community is alarmed, and the man last seen with her cannot be found.
The colored residents of Whitechapel in Seattle are very much excited over the mysterious disappearance and supposed murder of Chloe Jackson, an 18-year-old colored girl, who came here last fall from New Orleans, and who has not been seen since Saturday at midnight. Suspicion rests on her lover, Joe Davenport, a young negro sport who was seen with the missing girl Saturday night, and who now cannot be found.
“Suspicion rests on her lover … who was seen with the missing girl Saturday night, and who now cannot be found.”
More than a century later the pattern still stings: cases of missing Black and Indigenous women draw far less attention than those of white victims, a disparity that advocates of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives movement and media scholars have documented for decades. Chloe Jackson deserves to be remembered as a person, not a paragraph.
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