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• 1 2019-03-12T23:56:44+00:00 January - Archived Posts 22 plain published 2019-09-10T23:36:24+00:00
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  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.
• 1 2019-03-12T23:57:17+00:00 January 27, 1955 5 plain published 2019-08-20T19:32:19+00:00 On January 27, 1955, the California Eagle published an editorial cartoon regarding the a visit of the U.S. aircraft carrier Midway to Capetown, South Africa. Following the policy that American armed services personnel follow the laws of the country in which they are stationed or visiting, Acting Secretary of the Navy James Smith and the American consul general in Capetown agreed that the Navy crew aboard the Midway would abide by South Africa’s system of apartheid segregation. This meant that the Midway’s four hundred black sailors would have to carry special permits while on shore leave and could not visit bars, hotels, movie theaters, and beaches that were restricted to whites. Frank Mitchell, head of the NAACP’s Washington Bureau, lobbied against these segregated shore passes and encouraged the Navy to avoid Capetown as a port of call. “We have learned with sick dismay that U.S. Aircraft Carrier Midway is proceeding to Capetown, South Africa, where 400 colored members of the crew must submit to segregation,” Mitchell wrote to Navy officials. “In a few weeks representatives of nations from Asia and Africa will be meeting in joint session. It is impossible to believe that even the most inept propagandist would fail to [note] this incident to embarrass and denounced our country in that forum. We must not permit the colored, Jews, Protestant and Catholic seamen of the United States to stain their shoe soles on the hate-polluted soil of the Union of South Africa in the name of a vital democracy which we all love and are prepared to defend agains all enemies. We ask that the ‘Midway’ proceed to some other port where our flag may fly in air that is not tainted with the stench of apartheid and where our fighting men may walk ashore with the dignity that U.S. citizens deserve.”⁶²
  
  Thank you to Lou Moore for sending me this California Eagle cartoon and suggesting this topic for today’s post. 
  
  For coverage of this controversy in the black press, see:
  
  Ethel Payne, “Navy Bows to S. Africa Jim Crow,” Chicago Defender, January 22, 1955 (click to view PDF).
  
  “NAACP Raps Navy’s Submissiveness,” Los Angeles Sentinel, January 20, 1955 (PDF).
  
  “NAACP Disputes Government,” New York Amsterdam News, January 29, 1955 (PDF).
  
  A. J. Siggins, “Along the Colonial Front,” Philadelphia Tribune, February 8, 1955 (PDF).