12019-03-12T23:57:34+00:00Stanford University Pressaf84c3e11fe030c51c61bbd190fa82a3a1a1282411NY Amsterdam News - June 14, 1986plainpublished2019-03-12T23:57:34+00:00Anonymous
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.