January - Archived Posts

January 1, 1938: New Opportunities on New Year’s Day in Pittsburgh Courier.

January 2, 1947: Royal Crown Cola advertisement featuring actress and singer Etta Moten in Los Angeles Sentinel.

January 3, 1935: Atlanta Daily World columnist I.P. Reynolds on his code of ethics for 1935.

January 4, 1936: Baltimore Afro-American announces wedding of Temple University junior.

January 5, 1957: “Jocko” Henderson’s rock ’n’ roll radio show advertised in New York Amsterdam News.

January 6, 1940: Norfolk Journal and Guide mourns the passing of Howard University’s Kelly Miller, mathematician, sociologist, and author.

January 7, 1972: Advertisement for Soul Solider, a black Western about Buffalo Soldiers, in Atlanta Daily World.

January 8, 1916: Teenage amateur radio enthusiast featured in Chicago Defender.

January 9, 1971: Free exams to detect breast and uterine cancer given by Bronx Women’s Liberation Health Committee, reported in New York Amsterdam News.

January 10, 1935: Los Angeles Sentinel profile of businesswoman Lela Rideout, owner of Spotless Cleaners.

January 11, 1975: Politician and professor Zoe Barbee mourned in Norfolk Journal and Guide after tragic car accident.

January 12, 1952: Cleveland Call and Post on murder of civil rights activists Harry T. Moore and his wife Harriette Vyda Simms Moore.

January 13, 1938:Thomas Jefferson Flanagan’s poetry column, “Up From Georgia With My Banjo” in the Atlanta Daily World.

January 14, 1956: “Our People: Pages from History” illustration by cartoonist Melvin Tapley in New York Amsterdam News.

January 15, 1927: Vaudeville producer Leonard Harper in Pittsburgh Courier.

January 16, 1936: “Sin syndicate” led by Queenie Parker, described in Philadelphia Tribune.

January 17, 1953: Debutante ball hosted by Royal Coterie of Snakes, photos in Chicago Defender.

January 18, 1969: Articles related to first posthumous commemorations of Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday.

January 19, 1957: Baltimore Afro-American articles on founding of Southern Negro Leaders Conference on Transportation and Non-Violent Integration and Sidney Poitier’s Edge of the City.

January 20, 1943: Atlanta Daily World “Society Swirl” article on farewell party for a “popular matron” who was going to work at a defense plant in Mobile, Alabama.

January 21, 1911: Chicago Defender subscription advertisement featuring The Life and Works of Paul Laurence Dunbar.

January 22, 1966: Cleveland Call and Post columnist Daisy Craggett raises concerns over urban renewal plans in the Hough community.

January 23, 1947: Los Angeles Sentinel promotes Harlem Globetrotters exhibition game.

January 24, 1963: Gospel legend James Cleveland in the Los Angeles Sentinel.

January 25, 1913: Hair care advertisements in Philadelphia Tribune, featuring Madame T.D. Perkins, “Scientific Scalp Specialist.”

January 26, 1935: Fan Tan skin bleach advertisement in Norfolk Journal and Guide.

January 27, 1955: California Eagle editorial cartoon regarding segregated shore leave for black U.S. Navy sailors in South Africa.

January 28, 1922: St. Paul Appeal article on controversy over burial of former Louisiana governor P.B.S. Pinchback.

January 29, 1972: “Madame President?: Our Shirley [Chisholm] First Black Woman to Run,” in New York Amsterdam News.

January 30, 1928: “Woman Kills Man” stories in Chicago Defender.

January 31, 1942: Black press coverage of Red Cross/military ban on black blood donors.