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• 1 2019-03-12T23:56:45+00:00 July - Archived Posts 9 plain published 2020-12-14T18:58:22+00:00
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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 2019-03-12T23:57:27+00:00 July 22, 1969 4 plain published 2019-09-11T22:18:58+00:00
  On July 22, 1969, the Chicago Defender featured comments from black Chicagoans regarding the Apollo 11 moon landing on July 20, 1969. The article, “Chicagoans Hail Historic Moon Walk...But,” was one of several in the black press that praised the space program while also wondering whether the money could be better spent on social issues in the U.S.
  
  Here is a selection of articles related to the moon landing (click on article title to view PDF):
  
  “Moon Shot Unites U.S. for Instant,” Chicago Defender, July 21, 1969: “The first non-racist moment in American history came at 3:17 pm Sunday, when two Americans—nestled snugly in their lunar craft—became the first men to land on the moon.”
  
  Booker Griffin, “Moon Dust and Black Disgust,” Los Angeles Sentinel, July 24, 1969: “The high priority that this country has put on landing on the moon and exploring outer space in the face of deplorable human suffering in this nation and throughout the world again asserts the fact that mechanical values supersede human values in this country.”
  
  “’Poor People’ on Hand for Historic Moon Shot,” Norfolk Journal and Guide, July 26, 1969: “The Rev. Ralph Abernathy, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, SCLC, holds a sign which ridicules the spending of $12 a day to feed an astronaut, ‘We could feed a starving child for $8.’”
  
  Tommy Cross, “Women Observes 100th Birthday, Then Watches Historic Moon Landing,” Philadelphia Tribune, July 22, 1969: “After celebrating her 100th birthday all day Sunday, a Sharon Hill woman stayed up until 1 a.m. to watch the astronauts explore the surface of the moon. ‘I never thought The Lord would allow man to set foot on the moon,’ said Mrs. Adelaide Corbin of 516 Sharon Ave. ‘But now that we’ve done it, I think it’s wonderful, wonderful, marvelous,’ the century-old woman exulted.”
  
  Art Peters, “75,000 Miss Moon Landing; Rock in Rain to Motown ‘Soul’ Music,” Philadelphia Tribune, July 26, 1969: “While the eyes of the rest of the world were on the moon landing, more than 75,000 persons in Harlem ignored the lunar spectacle Sunday afternoon and rocked and rolled in the rain to the soulful sounds of some of Motown’s biggest stars.”
  
  “Moon Flight Brings Mixed Emotions Among Blacks,” New York Amsterdam News, July 26, 1969: “It was easy to forget that there are still poor and hungry people back on earth as the Apollo 11 soared towards the moon, but Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) leader Hosea Williams didn’t forget. He strikes a militant black power pose in front of models of the Jupiter C and Titan II rockets.”