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Black Quotidian: Everyday History in African-American Newspapers

Norfolk Journal and Guide - July 8, 1933

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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.
July 8, 1933 On July 8, 1933, the Norfolk Journal and Guide reported that soprano Matilda Sissieretta Jones had died. Jones, who became internationally famous in the 1890s, was frequently called “Black Patti“ in reference to Italian opera singer Adelina Patti. Jones “sang with great success before royalty of many countries and in all of the principal cities of Europe,” the Journal and Guide reported. “She later headed her own company, an aggregation of talented performers of that day, known as the ‘Black Patti Troubadours’ which played in every important city of America, the West Indies, and Central American with sensational success.”

Jones’s death was front page news in the Chicago Defender, “‘Black Patti,’ Once Famous Stage Star, Dies.”

For more on Sissieretta Jones, see Maureen Lee, Sissieretta Jones: “The Greatest Singer of Her Race,” 1868–1933 (University of South Carolina Press, 2012).