Word: norfolk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy's big bases now were in Norfolk and Guantánamo...
Searching his brain for a fresh lead on an editorial on slums, Editor P. Bernard Young of the Norfolk (Va.) Journal and Guide stared moodily out the window-and saw a Negro hovel cave in. Rushing from his office, he got pictures, a story and a bitter editorial that shocked Norfolk's officials into action. That was in 1933. Now Norfolk has four modern Negro housing developments, and Editor Young heads the Negro housing advisory commission...
...nearly 40 years, the weekly Norfolk Journal and Guide has campaigned so skillfully for the Negro that it is the biggest Negro newspaper in the South (circ. 68,000). It is also about the most soundly edited paper in a segment of the U.S. press that is too often shrill, sensational and irresponsible. Last week the Guide won its third straight Wendell Willkie award-for public service in Negro journalism. Said Louis M. Lyons, curator of Harvard's Nieman Fellowships and chairman of the judges: "For the most part, the Negro press has a long...
Into Battle. The Young approach, among other things, got Gloucester County to float a $750,000 bond issue to improve conditions in Negro schools, and persuaded Norfolk to pay the same salaries to Negro and white schoolteachers. On only a few occasions has the Guide used the frontal attack. After a Negro was convicted of raping a white woman and condemned to death, the Guide decided he was innocent. It defied local custom by printing the woman's name. A white man read the story, gave testimony that proved the case was a frame...
Carol Smith '51 of 33 Healey st. and Norfolk, Virginia: major--English; circulation manager, senior editor, Signature magazine; president, 33 Healey st.; freshman formal co-chairman...