"The Blacks" Off-Broadway play opening day ad & review...

THE VILLAGE VOICE, Greenwich Village, New York, May 11, 1961



* "The Blacks" Off-Broadway play

* Opening day advertisement & review

* Theater director Gene Frankel



Page 10 has a advertisement for the opening week for "The Blacks" Off-Broadway play. Page 11 has it's opening day review which continues on other inside pages.



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1977 interview w/ rascist Amiri Baraka...

THE VILLAGE VOICE (weekly), Greenwich Village, New York City, Aug. 1, 1977



* Amiri Baraka - LeRoi Jones

* African American culture writer

* Interview of racist with photos



The front page has a heading: "AMIRI BARAKA'S LONG MARCH" with photo. And beginning on page 12 is a interview with him which includes some related photo. See images for small portion of the text.

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The Lowry War in North Carolina...

THE NEW YORK HERALD, Dec. 28, 1872 



* Andrew Strong killed

* Lowry's War - gang

* Pembroke, North Carolina

* Scuffletown



Page three has an article on the Lowery (Lowry, Lowrie) War in North Carolina.

The Lowry War is a notable event in North Carolina history. Led by Henry Berry Lowry, whose father and brother were murdered by men of the Confederate Home Guard, a band of American... See More  

Martin Luther King Jr. is arrested...

FITCHBURG SENTINEL, Mass., July 28, 1962 

 

* Albany Georgia civil rights rally - prayer

* Martin Luther King Jr. arrest and put in jail  (day of)



Page 6 has a two column heading: "Negro Strategists Map Plans In Racial Assault" (see) King and his associates would be arrested shortly after this publication was released.

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The Albany Movement... Georgia civil rights...

THE VILLAGE VOICE (weekly), Greenwich Village, New York, Oct. 4, 1962



* The Albany Movement - Georgia

* Shiloh Baptist Church gathering

* Negroes - civil rights movement

* Martin Luther King Jr. speech



The front page has a heading: "In Albany Jails" with lead-in: "The Press of Freedom" and related photo. (see images) Lengthy text continues on multiple inside pages.

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Lincoln's adversary for the Presidency...

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, September 17, 1864  The full front page is a very dramatic print: "Harry Davis Capturing the Battle Flag of the 13th Louisiana Regiment, at the Battle of Ezra Church".  Other prints within include: "Admiral Farragut's Fleet Bombarding Fort Morgan" "Rear-Admiral David G. Farragut, U.S.N." "View of Petersburg, Virginia, ... See More  

"Little Rock Nine"...

FITCHBURG SENTINEL, Mass., September 5, 1957 



* Little Rock Nine - Elizabeth Eckford

* Negro students - Arkansas

* 1st Central High School entry try

* Dorothy County - civil rights pioneer

* Harry Harding High School - Charlotte NC



The front page has two, 2 column photos showing Elizabeth Eckford and Dorothy Counts with small heading: "Negro Girl Denied Admittance" with te... See More  

James T. Scales lynching... Pikeville, TN...

THE SPRINGFIELD UNION, Mass. November 24, 1944 



* James T. Scales, Pikeville, Tennessee lynching 

* Great World War II coverage vs. Japanese



The front page has one column heading: "NEGRO TRUSTEE SLAIN BY MOB" with subhead. (see images) First report coverage on the lynching of Negro teen James T. Scales in Pikeville, Tennessee.

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Alfred Vanderbilt weds... William H Lewis being ousted out the American Bar Association...

VALLEY SENTINEL, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, March 5, 1912  The front page features a large photo of Mrs. Alfred G. Vanderbilt, whom he had just recently married. Just slightly more than three years later, Mr. Vanderbilt would be among the victims in the sinking of the Lusitania.



Another article within the issue is "Fights for Lewis" which was Attorney General Wickersham stating that... See More  

Cartersville GA lynching...

THE NEW YORK TIMES, New York, October 2, 1930  This 52 page newspaper has one column headlines on page 13 that include: "MOB COMES BACK AND LYNCHES NEGRO" "Takes Victim From Georgia Jail as Trial Nears, Troops Having Once Saved Him

* KEEPER'S KEYS ARE SEIZED" and more. (see)



This tells of the lynching of Negro John Will Clark in Cartersville, Georgia.



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Great news from the Mexican War... Four slave-related ads from this leading slave import city...

THE CHARLESTON COURIER, South Carolina, Aug. 12, 1847  In 14 years this city would be the hotbed for secession from the Union, not surprising given it was the largest American point of disembarkation for the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

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Capture of a slave ship...

DAILY OHIO STATESMAN, Columbus, Jan. 12, 1854 



* H.N. Ganbrill schooner

* Slaver - slave ship captured

* USS Constitution's last prize



Page 3 has: "The Slaver Gambrill--The Recent Seizure of a Slaver on the Coast of Africa" which includes: "...it was found that the slave deck had all been laid...a large quantity of water & slave provisions, sufficient  to s... See More  

Editorial commentary on Seward's "irrepressible conflict" speech...

NEW YORK HERALD, Oct. 28, 1858  



* William H. Seward on slavery

* re. Irrepressible Conflict speech



Page 4 contains a lengthy editorial on Seward's "irrepressible conflict" speech given just 3 days prior at Rochester. In his speech Seward took the opportunity to characterize the United States as divided between two opposing political systems, one based on slavery and the ... See More  

Fire at Baltimore... Auto Races at Ormond Beach...

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, February 13, 1904  Frontpage illustration "A Fit Guaranteed" by W. A. Rogers; William Collins Whitney; The Recent Floods in the Ohio Valley; The Automobile Races at Ormond Beach, Florida; With the Troops of Japan and Russia on Land and Sea; Baltimore's Great Fire; Day and Night Views of the Great Baltimore Fire; Snap-Shots Taken in the Burned... See More  

Negro girl being whipped... Sheridan's ride...

HARPER'S WEEKLY, Sept. 14, 1867 Most of ftpg: 'Whipping A Negro Girl in N.C. by Unconstructed Johnsonians' with text as well. 3/4 pg: 'Sheridan's Ride'. Nice fullpg: 'The Last Shot' shows a soldier off his horse, shooting an Indian with a tomahawk about to kill him.

Complete in sixteen pages.

1943 The assassination of Boris III of Bulgaria...

THE SPRINGFIELD UNION, Mass., Aug. 29, 1943



* King Boris III of Bulgaria assassination ?

* Tsar - czar of Kingdom of Bulgaria poisoned ?



The front page has a one column heading: "BORIS III DIES; SON SIMEON, 6, BECOMES KING" with subhead. (see images) 

Complete with all 40 pages, light toning and minor wear at the margins, nice condition.



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Eisnehower's "Crusade of Freedom"... Man convicted of "leering"...

THE NEW YORK TIMES, Nov. 12, 1952



* Convicted of "Leering" from a distance

* Yanceyville, Caswell County, North Carolina

* President Eisenhower's "Crusade of Freedom" speech



The front page has: "Negro in North Carolina Convicted Of Assault by 'Leer' at White Girl", which continues on page 21. It tells of sharecropper Mack Ingram's conviction of... See More  

United Negro College Fund is founded....

NEW YORK TIMES, May 1, 1944 



* UNCF founded - starts

* United Negro College Fund



Page 17 has a brief, discrete but very notable article with one column headings: "Drive To Open Wednesday" "United Negro College Fund Seeks to Raise $1,500,000".

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1859 Pike's Peak Gold Mining as a marketing ploy...

THE NORWALK EXPERIMENT, Huron County, Ohio, March 22, 1859



* Pike's Peak Gold Mining as an advertising hook

* Who should go to Pike's Peak

* Easier for negros in Massachusetts than foreigners (?)



The back page has a bold ad which appears to be seeking workers for the Pike Peak Gold Mines, but upon further inspection, the ad is actually for A. H. ROSE & CO's Store. However, ... See More  

Kentucky slave was given freedom...

DAILY NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, Washington, D.C., Feb. 3, 1853  Page 3 has an article: "Slave Decision In Kentucky" which begins: "The Court of Appeals of Kentucky in a late case gave freedom to a slave under the following circumstances:..." which they offers the details.

Four pages,  nice condition.

1957 "Little Rock Nine" Central High School...

THE SPRINGFIELD UNION, Mass., September 11, 1957 



* Little Rock Nine

* Negro students - Arkansas

* Central High School

* Gov. Orval Faubus disobeys 

* re. Brown v. Board of Education 



The top of the front page has a four column headline: "TROOPS WILL REMAIN AT ARKANSAS SCHOOL, GOV. FAUBUS ASSERTS" with subheads. (see images) This report concerns the Little Rock N... See More  

Jewish... Football...

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, December 2, 1905  Front page illustration "Digging" by W. A. Rogers; John M. Pattison, Governor-Elect of Ohio, Whose Election Defeated the Republican Machine Bosses; Yale's Victory Over Princeton at New Haven; The Reign of Terror in Russia--Scenes of the Massacres of Jews and the General Industrial Uprising; The Evils of College Athletic... See More  

Thomas Nast prints... A.B. Frost print... "The Centennial" prints...

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, October 21, 1876  Full front page Thomas Nast: 'The Solid South--Gaunt & Hungry'.; Full page illustration A.B. Frost: 'Of Course He Wants to Vote the Democratic Ticket' shows a black man with 2 guns to his head.; Three fullpage prints on The Centennial.; 

Full page Thomas Nast illustration: 'Struck - At Sea'; Hal... See More  

H.G. Wells...

A Fourth of July crash, and a Train disaster in England....

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, July 21, 1906  There is a front page photo, "The King and Queen of Norway" by Underwood & Underwood. There is an article, "The Future in America, A Search after Realities", by H. G. Wells, author of War of the Worlds, with illustrations done by Vernon Howe Bailey and E. V. Nadherny. Photos of "Scenes at the C... See More  

Willie Vinson lynching...

THE NEW YORK TIMES, July 13, 1942.



* Willie Vinson, Texarkana TX lynching

* Great World War II coverage



This 30 page newspaper has a very small and discrete report on page 17 under:



* LYNCHIN RECORD BETTER



Tells of the lynching of negro Willie Vinson in Texarkana, Texas.



Other news of the day throughout including much on World War II.



Light browning, otherwise in good condition... See More