Los Angeles Sentinel - June 9, 1968
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Click on date to view post: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 9, 1968 3 plain published 2019-08-21T10:50:31+00:00 On June 9, 1968, the Los Angeles Sentinel carried news of the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. The front page headline read: “Kennedy Added to Martyr List: JFK, MLK, Evers” (click to view PDF of front page). Longtime Sentinel columnist A. S. “Doc” Young reported on the shooting: “Moments after [Robert F. Kennedy] had delivered an election victory speech to a cheering audience in the Ambassador Hotel...he was shot and critically wounded...The people were shocked. Some cried. Some cursed. Some prayed. Everyone died a little. For, in truth, at the moment that Senator Kennedy was shot, America died a little more.”