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Black Quotidian: Everyday History in African-American Newspapers

Baltimore Afro-American - June 6, 1964

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June 1, 1957: Dollree Mapp’s arrest for possessing obscene books leads to landmark case regarding police search and seizure, reported in Cleveland Call and Post.
June 2, 1945: Black newspaper executives meet with President Truman, reported in Norfolk Journal and Guide.
June 3, 1921: Tulsa Race Massacre reported in Baltimore Afro-American.
June 4, 1904: Indianapolis Freeman mourns the death of composer Antonin Dvorak. Guest post by Lucy Caplan, PhD candidate in American Studies and African-American Studies at Yale University.
June 5, 1952: Fultz Quadruplets in Los Angeles Sentinel.
June 6, 1964: Kool cigarettes advertisement in Baltimore Afro-American.
June 7, 1941: Brooklyn branch of NAACP launches membership drive, led by Ella Baker.
June 8, 2002: Multi-part series, “Blacks on White Campuses,” by Hazel Trice Edney in Pittsburgh Courier.
June 9, 1968: Los Angeles Sentinel reports on assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.
June 10, 1965: Arthur Ashe leads UCLA into NCAA tennis tournament, reported in Los Angeles Sentinel.
June 11, 1921: Lafayette Players’ production of “Parlor, Bedroom & Bath,” starring Cleo Desmond and Andrew Bishop, advertised in Philadelphia Tribune.
June 12, 1955: C.L. Franklin’s gospel gathering advertised in Atlanta Daily World.
June 13, 1967: Loving v. Virginia, Supreme Court case on overturning state bans on interracial marriage, reported in Chicago Defender.
June 14, 1986: “Remember Soweto” and “End Apartheid” march, reported in New York Amsterdam News.
June 15, 1967: Thurgood Marshall nominated for U.S. Supreme Court by President Lyndon B. Johnson, reported in Los Angeles Sentinel.
June 16, 1934: W. E. B. DuBois resigns from the NAACP and The Crisis, reported in Cleveland Call and Post.
June 17, 1948: Los Angeles Sentinel on murder case involving Ruth Mae Foster and Virginia Louise Ford.
June 18, 1949: Juneteenth in the Chicago Defender.
June 19, 1954: Negro Traveler’s Green Book promoted in New York Amsterdam News.

June 20, 1935: Full page advertisement for Crosley electric refrigerators in Cleveland Call and Post.

June 21, 1952: Joe Louis surveys the title fight between “Sugar” Ray Robinson and Joey Maxim for the Pittsburgh Courier.
June 22, 1933: Ralph Metcalfe and Jesse Owens set records at Chicago track meet, reported in Philadelphia Tribune.
June 23, 1937: Joe Louis defeats James Braddock for heavyweight title, reported in Atlanta Daily World.

June 24, 1967: “Facts About the Negro” by J.A. Rogers in Pittsburgh Courier.

June 25, 1963: Philadelphia Tribune reports on protest march and voter registration drive in city to honor Medgar Evers.

June 26, 1909: Mississippi Negro Business League, led by Charles Banks, holds annual meeting, reported in Baltimore Afro-American.

June 27, 1963: Protestors stage sit-in against housing discrimination in Torrence, California, reported in Los Angeles Sentinel.

June 28, 1956: Advertisement for Angelus Funeral Home in Los Angeles Sentinel.

June 29, 1929: “Decatur Street Tutti” by Jabbo Smith and his Rhythm Aces, featured in Norfolk Journal and Guide.

June 30, 1934: New York Amsterdam News congratulates black high school graduates in New York City.
June 6, 1964 On June 6, 1964, the Baltimore Afro-American ran an advertisement for Kool cigarettes. Kool started marketing menthol cigarettes to African Americans in the 1950s, and these marketing efforts increased in the 1960s and 1970s.

To read more, see Phillip Gardiner, “The African Americanization of Menthol Cigarette Use in the United States,” and Sarah S. Lochlann Jain, “‘Come Up to the Kool Taste’: African American Upward Mobility and the Semiotics of Smoking Menthol” (Public Culture 15, no. 2, 2003).