NY Amsterdam News - December 5, 1942
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Click on date to view post:December 1, 1973: Pittsburgh Courier editors call on President Nixon to resign amidst Watergate scandal.December 2, 1933: World War I veteran Rufus Atwood featured in Baltimore Afro-American “Heroes of the World War” series.December 3, 1959: Los Angeles Sentinel columnist Stanley Robinson on “20th Century Slavery,” recruiting of black domestic workers to Los Angeles from South. Guest post by Chase Miller, History MA student at Arizona State University.December 4, 1930: Ad for black vaudeville troupe the Whitman Sisters in the Philadelphia Tribune.December 5, 1942: New York Amsterdam News encourages readers to vote for Duke Ellington in Downbeat Magazine poll. Guest post by Todd Daily, History MA student at Arizona State University.December 6, 1969: Whitney Young critiques Vice President Spiro Agnew’s speech on television news in Chicago Defender. Guest post by Keisha Smith, History MA student at Arizona State University.December 7, 1958: Orange Blossom Classic football game pits Florida A&M against Prairie View for Black National Championship, ad in Atlanta Daily World.December 8, 1926: Urban League employment campaign reported in New York Amsterdam News.December 9, 1948: House of Records advertisement in Los Angeles Sentinel.December 10, 1927: Chicago Defender on Marcus Garvey’s deportation to Jamaica. Guest post by Avi Buckles, History MA student at Arizona State University.December 11, 1959: President of Bennett College’s Student Senate asks classmates “Where do you stand?” in Bennet Banner. Guest post by Deidre B. Flowers, PhD Candidate at Teachers College, Columbia University.December 12, 1935: Josephine Baker in Ziegfeld Follies, covered in Philadelphia Tribune.December 13, 1953: Atlanta Daily World awaits Brown v. Board ruling. Guest post by Jeffrey Joynt, History MA student at Arizona State University.December 13, 1952: Philadelphia Tribune columnist Mamie Robinson on black Republican women. Guest post by Michael Embry, History MA student at Arizona State University.December 14, 1963: Pittsburgh Courier on Malcolm X and Nation of Islam. Guest post by Geoff Schumacher, History MA student at Arizona State University.December 15, 1923: Brown & Stevens Bank ad for “Christmas Club” savings accounts in Philadelphia Tribune.December 16, 1950: New York Amsterdam News praises life of Naval aviator Jesse L. Brown. Guest post by Stanley Bowling, Manager of Content Digitization at ProQuest and United States Navy veteran.December 16, 1971: Los Angeles Sentinel on the death of Dr. Ralph Bunche. Guest post by John Loll, History MA student at Arizona State University.December 17, 1955: Baltimore Afro-American on Rosa Parks, E.D. Nixon, and Montgomery Bus Boycott. Guest post by Adam Pinkerton, History MA student at Arizona State University.December 17, 1998: Los Angeles Sentinel columnist Larry Aubry on race and politics. Guest post by Tiffanie Butcher, History MA student at Arizona State University.December 18, 1986: Advertisement for Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland Call and Post.December 19, 1942: Racial barriers during WWII reported in Baltimore Afro-American. Guest post by Kristopher Boatman, History MA student at Arizona State University.December 20, 1930: Singer Alberta Hunter describes black performers being treated better in Europe than in United States, reported in Norfolk Journal and Guide.December 21, 1978: Origins and meaning of Kwanza discussed in Los Angeles Sentinel.December 22, 1978: Black Santa in the Pittsburgh Courier.December 23, 1934: Ex-Slave Association meeting reported in Atlanta Daily World.December 24, 1932: Chicago Defender on protests against Birth of a Nation.December 25, 1937: Harlem churches and civic organizations help needy families for Christmas, reported in New York Amsterdam News.December 26, 1957: Afro-Asian People’s Solidarity Conference covered in Los Angeles Sentinel.December 27, 1958: Leroy Crayton’s Southern Sausage Company runs ad praising Christ’s love in Cleveland Call and Post.December 28, 1957: New York Amsterdam News on the “Year Negroes Fought Back.”December 29, 1962: Professional football teams draft several black players, covered in Cleveland Call and Post. Guest post by Caryn Tijsseling, History MA student at Arizona State University.December 30, 1916: Philadelphia Tribune obituary for soprano Sarah Sedgewick Bowers-Bell.December 31, 1969: Chicago Defender on call for civilian inquiry into police abuse. Guest post by Rubin McMillan, History MA student at Arizona State University.December 31, 1957: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. accepts award from Philadelphia Cotillion Society, reported in Philadelphia Tribune. Guest post by Stephen Huff, History MA student at Arizona State University.December 31, 1940: NAACP asks US Attorney General to investigate racial terror in Memphis, reported in Atlanta Daily World. Guest post by Candace F. Bryson, History MA student at Arizona State University.
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Guest post by Todd Daily, History MA student at Arizona State University.
This article is a plea for the readers of the New York Amsterdam Star-News to cast their vote for Duke Ellington for a popularity contest sponsored by the magazine DownBeat. At the writing of the article, Ellington was in close competition with Benny Goodman. Ellington had won second place previously, and the reporter was calling the readers to cast a vote, so that Ellington could be in his rightful place “at the top.”
The author gives the readers specific instructions on how to cast their vote. The readers are called to realize “that an Ellington victory will have a double significance.” The lead paragraph hints at the significance of an African-American band winning this recognition for the first time.
DownBeat magazine’s online Hall of Fame does not seem to record the winners of the Readers’ Poll back to 1942. It does, however, show that Duke Ellington won the Readers’ Poll in 1956. Benny Goodman won a year later in 1957.
Duke Ellington composed his first score while working at a soda fountain when he was fifteen years old. Ellington continued as composer, pianist, and bandleader of a jazz orchestra, although he considered his music to be American music, rather than restricting himself to jazz. He composed over 1,000 songs in his career that spanned almost fifty years.
