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  July 1, 1944: Cleveland Call and Post highlights Annie Booker, a mother with three sons serving in Army during WWII.

  July 2, 1991: Clarence Thomas nominated to U.S. Supreme Court by President George Bush, reported in Philadelphia Tribune.

  July 3, 1976: Women fight sex bias, reported in Pittsburgh Courier.

  July 4: Frederick Douglass’ speech “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?“ in Philadelphia Tribune (1933 & 1993), Chicago Defender (1971), and New York Amsterdam News (1983).

  July 5, 1947: Eviction crisis reported in Cleveland Call and Post.

  July 6, 1950: African-American swimmers in Los Angeles Sentinel.

  July 7, 1977: African-American Family History Association meets in Atlanta, reported in Atlanta Daily World.

  July 8, 1933: Soprano Matilda Sissieretta Jones mourned in Norfolk Journal and Guide.

  July 9, 1927: Alain Locke returns to Howard University, reported in Baltimore Afro-American.

  July 10, 1971: Ophelia DeVore and Florynce Kennedy sue Life Magazine, reported in New York Amsterdam News.

  July 11, 1914: White neighbors harass black homeowner in West Philadelphia, reported in Philadelphia Tribune.

  July 12, 1930: Telephone advertisement in Norfolk Journal and Guide.

  July 13, 1963: Chicago Defender editorial on Maryland civil rights activist Gloria Richardson.

  July 14, 1926: New York Amsterdam News reports on Empire State Federation of Women’s Clubs.

  July 15, 1937: U.S. Navy sailor Robert Starks Jr. helps search for Amelia Earhart, reported in Cleveland Call and Post.

  July 16, 1948: African American men involved with United Nations profiled in Atlanta Daily World.

  July 17, 1909: Richard Robert Wright Sr. and the National Association of Teachers in Colored Schools, reported in Baltimore Afro-American.

  July 18, 1966: Chicago Defender on West Side conflicts between residents and police.  Guest post by Catrien Egbert and Yasmin Mitchel, DePaul University and Chicago History Museum.

  July 19, 1951: Sister Rosetta Tharpe’s epic wedding covered in Los Angeles Sentinel.

  July 20, 1929: Advertisement for Auburn Straight Eight cars in Pittsburgh Courier.

  July 21, 1951: Air Force veteran and family face violence in all-white Cicero, Illinois, reported in Chicago Defender. Guest Post by Mark Speltz.

  July 22, 1969: Black press coverage of Apollo moon landing.

  July 23, 1927: Baltimore Afro-American on the sinking of the ship Majestic in Chesapeake Bay.

  July 24, 1977: Atlanta Daily World reports on a conference at Howard University regarding Regents of the University of California v. Bakke affirmative action case.

  July 25, 1981: New York Amsterdam News on Black and Hispanic construction workers protesting at Trump Tower in Manhattan.

  July 26, 1947: Cleveland Call and Post reports on WWII veteran and family living in garage.

  July 27, 1939: Los Angeles Sentinel announces opening of new dress shop.

  July 28. 1939: Actress and singer Abbie Mitchell returns from three years performing abroad, reported in Norfolk Journal and Guide.

  July 29, 1944: Dr. Lonnie Smith (of Smith v. Allwright case) goes to the polls in Texas, reported in Philadelphia Tribune.

  July 30, 1955: “Heroes in Blue” series profiles black police officers in Pittsburgh Courier.

  July 31, 1909: Rail travel over Santa Fe Trail featured in Chicago Defender.
• 1 2019-03-12T23:57:26+00:00 July 17, 1909 7 plain published 2019-11-04T22:59:01+00:00 On July 17, 1909, the Baltimore Afro-American reported on a recent meeting of the National Association of Teachers in Colored Schools. “The president of the association is R. R. Wright, who is also the president of the Georgia State Industrial College at Savannah,” the paper noted. “Dr. Wright is one of the most distinguished Negroes in America. It was he who when a mere boy, shortly after the close of the civil war, gave that now famous answer to a request for a message to the north from General O. O. Howard, who was then at Atlanta, ‘Tell them we are rising.’”
  
  Wright told the conference of educators, “Our teachers are a powerful force in developing character and bettering social conditions, but the relation between the teacher and the home of the child must somehow be made closer. The teacher must work not only with the pupil, but with the parent. A great responsibility rests upon the teachers. It is taken for granted that they see the need of organization, and that they understand the task that is set before them, and that they know that in this age of electricity and combination individual effort must be strengthened and made most effective by co-operation with others working in the same sphere.”
  
  Richard Robert Wright’s son, R. R. Wright Jr., earned his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, as did Ruth Wright Hayre, the daughter of R. R. Wright Jr. Ruth Wright Hayre was the first African-American high school principal in Philadelphia, and she improved the educational opportunities for black students in the city. She titled her autobiography Tell Them We Are Rising, in a nod to her grandfather.