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• 1 2019-03-12T23:56:45+00:00 June - Archived Posts 9 plain published 2019-08-27T02:03:05+00:00
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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.
• 1 2019-03-12T23:56:50+00:00 June 27, 1963 5 plain published 2019-10-15T01:19:10+00:00 Guest post by Mark Speltz, author of North of Dixie: Civil Rights Photography Beyond the South (J. Paul Getty Museum, 2016).
  
  On June 27, 1963, the Los Angeles Sentinel reported that police arrested twenty-three protesters staging a sit-in against housing discrimination in Torrance, California. The 2:00 a.m. raid and arrests ended a twelve-hour long demonstration at a sales office in a sprawling greater Los Angeles housing development with a discriminatory “sales policy which excludes Negroes, Mexican-Americans, and Orientals.”
  
  For decades Los Angeles’s swelling black population struggled against myriad forms of discrimination, including workplace biases and unequal and underfunded schools, but housing discrimination proved especially pervasive. Families hoping to secure housing beyond crowded and largely segregated neighborhoods were not welcome in new developments like the Southwood Riveria tract the Los Angeles chapter of CORE targeted with its protests.
  
  The Sentinel’s coverage of the demonstration included a news picture of Torrance police officers carrying activists to a paddy wagon. The photograph, which documents only a split-second of the evening’s action, suggests the arrests were orderly and free of violence, but activists “reported manhandling by Torrance police and the nine women arrested stated they were subjected to indignities. The last woman from the tract reported that one policeman grabbed her by the hair while another pulled her ear and they slammed her into the paddy wagon head first.”  
  
  The inclusion of the early morning photograph, which was credited to Charles Brittin, underscores the critical roles activist photographers played during the struggle. As an active member of CORE, Brittin combined his artistic sensibilities and concern for social justice by serving as the group’s photographer. Pictures by Brittin and scores of others nationwide were used in brochures, leaflets, and fundraising materials and shared with news outlets including newspapers and publications covering local and national campaigns. 
  
  Equally important, the mere presence of dedicated movement photographers, whether in the wee hours of the morning or at a daylight demonstration, offered activists an added degree of protection. Photographers could not singlehandedly prevent, or always successfully document, instances of violence, but their pictures repeatedly influenced public opinion by illuminating aggression and injustice during the long black freedom struggle. 
  
  For those interested in learning more about Charles Brittin and his wide-ranging photographic work, the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles provides access to his papers and photographic work. More information is available here. 
  
  Also, a series of interviews with the photographer that were recently made available online can be found here.