Learn about African American history with these old magazine articles. Find information on Black Civil Rights violations in the 1920s.
The Crackers of old hated miscegenation (i.e.race-mixing). Sadly, they seemed to have removed the concept of love from the equation – and happily this article reminds us that not everyone felt the same way in 1923. The attached column concerns U.S. Senator Arthur Capper (1865 – 1951) and all the hot water he got into when he sponsored a bill that would have, among other things, criminalized race-mixing.
Miscegenation (Time Magazine, 1923) Read More »
Robert Watson Winston (1860 – 1944) was, in every sense, a man of his age. A Democratic politician from the state of North Carolina, he penned this highly prejudiced article about segregation (he liked it). He packed his column with all sorts of fifty cent words like miscegenation, quadroons and octoroon. He was yet one more white Southerner who feared race blending and the sharing of political power with African-Americans. He was delighted that so many of them were headed to the more industrialized states in the North.
‘Should the Color Line Go?” (Reader’s Digest, 1923) Read More »
This column discusses a public address that got a lot people talking back in 1900. Charles Dudley Warner (1829 – 1900) was an honored man back in his time – even today he is celebrated with a website that has preserved his better quotes – but non of those citations were pulled from the controversial speech that is remembered here. In his address as president of the American Social Science Association, Warner openly called into question the usefulness higher education for African-Americans. The news of his prattle soon spread like a prairie fire and thousands of editorials were set to newsprint. Three eloquent responses appear here, one was by the (white) editor of a prominent African-American paper, The New York Age.
‘Is It Worth While to Educate the Negro?”(Literary Digest, 1900) Read More »
When it became clear to all that the Black community was not wasting its money or withering under the weight of Syphilis like their White counterparts – it was decided that it was time to erect an interracial hotel in the Nevada casino capital of Las Vegas, and so they did; it was called Moulin Rouge.
Racial Integration Comes to Sin City (People Today Magazine, 1955) Read More »
An article about Elijah Muhammad and the realization of his dreams.
America’s Black Muslims (The Hibbert Journal, 1965) Read More »
One of Reverend Martin Luther King’s most poignant observations involved the sad fact one of America’s most segregated institutions was the church. This article is about the New York Episcopal Archdioceses and their efforts to remedy that in the early Thirties:
All Souls Episcopal Church is in Harlem, New York’s ‘black belt’. This once lily white congregation has been engulfed by the spreading colored population. Opposition to negro parishioners reached a point when an element of the white vestry asked the rector, Reverend Rollin W. Dodd, to resign…
A Racial Dust-Up in Harlem (Pathfinder Magazine, 1932) Read More »
Although African-American leaders anticipated a rough time when a Missouri politician named Harry Truman assumed the mightiest office in the land – in the end, he proved to be their champion.
[The NAACP] still regard President Truman as their real hero for pressing anti-poll tax, anti-lynching, FEPC and anti-segregation programs in the face of heavy Southern Democratic Opposition.
Those councilors who advised FDR on all matters African-American were popularly known as the Black Brain Trust…
‘Thank You, Mr. President” (Quick, 1952) Read More »
