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Indeed, local papers often had what black Courier distributor Arlam Carr called a “Negro page” which reported on local or social news in the black community but never reported stories related to the civil rights movement. So the Courier picked up the slack...
ELECTED. EFFA MANLEY, as the first woman member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame. The white co-owner of the Newark Eagles, one of baseball's Negro National League teams in the 1930s and '40s, was a civil rights activist; she died in 1981. After selling the club in 1948, Manley lobbied for the Hall of Fame to include Negro League stars; 16 will be inducted with her in July in Cooperstown...
...African-American community, scholars at the University have come to the defense of the annual February feature. Carter G. Woodson earned a Ph.D in history from Harvard in 1912—becoming the second black to receive a doctorate from the University. Fourteen years later, he founded Negro History Week, selecting a seven-day span in February that included the Feb. 7 birthday of abolitionist Frederick Douglass and the Feb. 12 birthday of Abraham Lincoln. A half-century later, as Woodson’s invention gained popularity, the week evolved into a full month. But last December, Woodson?...
...month-old Yolanda, when a bomb hit our front porch and exploded," Coretta recalled. Later in the book she wrote, "Martin was now a hero to America's black people. Shortly after the [Montgomery bus boycott], TIME magazine ran a cover story on Martin, calling him 'the scholarly Negro Baptist minister who in little more than a year has risen from nowhere to become one of the nation's remarkable leaders...
...Papke said. “But it could have come up more.” State Representative Byron Rushing ’64, D-Boston, the keynote speaker, encouraged the audience to take inspiration and action . “Get someone in America to call you a dangerous Negro,” Rushing challenged the audience after stating that officials in U.S. government feared King and referred to him as such. “Who in America is afraid of what you are doing? It is time for all of you to become dangerous Negros...Who at Harvard wants...