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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.
• 1 2019-03-12T23:57:28+00:00 July 30, 1955 4 plain published 2019-08-21T10:02:56+00:00 On July 30, 1955, the Pittsburgh Courier featured a “Heroes in Blue” profile of Patrolman James Hughes. The feature was part of a ten-part series on black cops by Frank E. Bolden, a Courier reporter who served as a correspondent during World War II.
  
  The editor’s note in the series introduction read: “Good policemen, or policewomen, are more than rough, tough guys. They are better than rough, tough guys. Even though the price of prudence and restraint, of intelligence and daring, may cost an officer his life, he must be equipped with the foregoing and with many other attributes gained only through experience. The good policeman is neither white nor colored. He is both. He is the good man. In the series of articles which starts this week in The Courier, Frank E. Bolden has dug into the files and come up with a brand new picture of the ‘Heroes in Blue.’ Some of them are men, some are women. Some have seen short service, some long. But all have faced danger beyond the call of duty.”
  
  The final part of the series featured a former traffic patrolman named Leonard Brown. The paper said Brown, “the first Negro patrolman to work the downtown area, grew tired of waiting for a promotion, so retired. This ‘Hero in Blue’ currently operates a grocery store and meat market in the Homewood District.” Bolden wrote that this experience was common for many blacks on the Pittsburgh police force: “Unlike many of their white colleagues, their acts of bravery failed to gain promotions for them. THIS SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN. All of them, according to their records, SHOULD HAVE BEEN PROMOTED. The fact that they WERE NOT, prompted the research and writing of ‘Heroes in Blue.’ Such an error or ‘oversight’ should not happen again...at least it is hoped that it won’t happen again.”