Atlanta Daily World - March 2, 1956 - Althea Gibson
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March 1, 1947: Juanita Jackson Mitchell and Baltimore NAACP protest segregated seating at Ford’s Theater.March 2, 1956: Tennis champion Althea Gibson trains for French Open and Wimbledon.March 3, 1985: Atlanta Daily World columnist Dr. Carrie George on the start of National Women’s History Week.March 4, 1893: Winter Park Advocate on town planning. Guest post by Dr. Julian Chambliss.March 5, 1969: Bell Plastics’ ads for plastic sofa covers in Los Angeles Sentinel.March 6, 1915: Chicago Defender on the death of Amanda Smith, founder of the Amanda Smith Industrial School for Colored Girls.March 7, 1964: Norfolk Journal and Guide reports on “sleeper” antibusing amendment in 1964 Civil Rights Act.March 8, 1965: Chicago Defender on Selma voting rights movement with reporting from Betty Washington.March 9, 1957: Pittsburgh Courier celebrates Ghana’s independence with 32-page supplement.March 10, 1945: Phyllis Daley, Navy’s first African-American nurse, in the New York Amsterdam News.March 11, 1944: Women’s Army Corps advertisements in Cleveland Call and Post and Chicago Defender.March 12, 1936: Marian Anderson sets sail for European tour.March 13, 1954: Cleveland Call and Post on the Connie Morgan, Toni Stone, and Mamie “Peanut” Johnson, the three women who played Negro League baseball.March 14, 1940: Los Angeles Sentinel on the unsolved murder of Dorothy Lee Gordon.March 15, 1913: Baltimore Afro-American on the death of Harriet Tubman, “Queen of the Underground.”March 16, 1991: New York Amsterdam News on International Women’s Day, featuring speaker Rosemari Mealey.March 17, 1977: Gertrude Gipson profile of Richard Pryor in the Los Angeles Sentinel.March 18, 1939: New York Amsterdam News on Hattie McDaniel and Gone with the Wind.March 19, 1910: Ida B. Wells-Barnett letter to the editor of the Chicago Defender.March 20, 1948: Rosa Lee Ingram case in Pittsburgh Courier.March 21, 1982: Atlanta Daily World on convictions of Maggie Bozeman and Julia Wilder for voter fraud.March 22, 1966: High school fencing champions in the Philadelphia Tribune.March 23, 1957: “Hobo party” covered by Cleveland Call and Post society page, “Women’s Whirl.”March 24, 1906: Classified ads for clairvoyants, astrologists, and readers in the Baltimore Afro-American.March 25, 1939: Federal Housing Authority (FHA) discrimination in the New York Amsterdam News, Chicago Defender, and Los Angeles Sentinel and the black press. Guest post by Michael Glass, PhD student.March 25, 1944: Amy Ashwood Garvey in the New York Amsterdam News. Guest post by Dr. Keisha N. Blain.March 26, 1955: Claudette Colvin’s arrest reported in the Chicago Defender.March 27, 1971: South Carolina civil rights activist Victoria DeLee runs for Congress.March 28, 1946: Los Angeles Sentinel reports on employment breakthrough for black workers in auto production.March 29, 1930: Tuskegee Institute women’s track team in Norfolk Journal and Guide.March 30, 1942: Pianist Hazel Scott and Broadway’s “Priorities of 1942” in the Atlanta Daily World.March 31, 1934: Philadelphia Tribune women’s basketball team in the Norfolk Journal and Guide.
