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Library of Congress1895

Image 4 of The freeman (Indianapolis [Ind.]), July 27, 1895

THE FREEMAN A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY At 57 Indiana Avenue INDIANAPOLIS INDIANA SUBSCRIPTION RATES WAny part of the United States and Can ada one yeah postage paid f 150 Six Months 85 Three Months 60 Foreign countries SIOO extra Send money by express money order post office order or registered letter to THE FREEMAN Indianapolis Indiana All communications enclosing news matter for publication must be sent with the name of the writer not for publication but as a guar antee of good faitn TO CONTRIBUTORS We prefer not to return manuscript where the articles are short and copies easily taken such as poems anecdotes and brief sketches and in no case will we undertake to return manuscript unless stamps tor that purpose ac company the article We will not pay for mat ter unless it is ordered All matter for publi cation must reach this office by Monday of each week to insure insertion in the current issue AGENTS Agents are wanted in every town and city not now occupied and liberal inducements will be given to the same Send for our extraordi nary inducements to agents ADVERTISING RATES Regular displaylo cents per line per inser

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Library of Congress1865

Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 25th instant, information in relation to the appointment of a commission in each of the slave states represented in Congress, charged to award to each loyal person, to whom a colored volunteer may owe service, a just compensation. January 26, 1865. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table, and be printed

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Library of Congress1945

Image 8 of Jackson advocate (Jackson, Miss.), March 10, 1945

THE JACKSON ADVOCATE 125H N Farih StreetPhone 33181 Published Weekly at Jackson Mississippi iERCY GREENE Editor and General Manage SUBSCRIPTION RATES AH Subscriptions Due and Payable in Advance Single Copy 6c One Yean 350 6 Months 200 3 Months 125 Make all checks payable to The Jackson Advocate In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers but in all things that affect our mutual progress and development we can be together as the handBooker T Washing ton The 118th Anniversary Of The Negro Newspaper Last Sunday brought to a close the annual observance of Na tional Negro Newspaper Week which included the issuance and publication of a letter of commendation from the President of the United States a radio program broadcast over a nationwide hook up and programs of observance in schools colleges churches bv civic and fraternal groups in village town and city in every sec tion of the nation which was probably the most widespread and general observance since its institution of few years ago No person who s in possession of even the slightest knowledge of the history of the United States and of the evolution of th great cohesive

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Library of Congress1958

Image 2 of Jackson advocate (Jackson, Miss.), March 15, 1958

131 AND STILL LIGHTING THE WAY to FREEDOM tSggEif IH _ THE JACKSON ADVOCATE Is Proud to Cooperate with Fellow Publishers In the Observance of NEGRO NEWSPAPER I MARCH 16 22 Commemorating the founding of Freedoms Journal the first Negro Newspaper by John B Russwurm on March 17 1827 in New York City r S Special Events SUNDAY MARCH 16 In mon Churches special sermons will be preached commemora ting the 131st Anniversary of the first Negro Newspaper TUESDAY MARCH 18 A Negro Newspaper Week Radio Broadcast over Station WXXX 000 megacycles at 545 P M featuring Sammy Davis Jr Billy Eckstine Jackie Robinson and William O Walker announced by Beverly Carter FRIDAY MARCH 21 Open House at the Jackson Advocate Plant Visitors are welcome See how a modem newspaper is edited printed distributed and managed SATURDAY MARCH 22 Another Negro Newspaper Week Radio Program on Sta y tion WZZZ 000 megacycles at 915 P M featuring Lena Horne Ella Fitzgerald Rev Martin Luther King Jr and h Frank L Stanley announced by Thomas W Young No Other Source of Information or Entertainment Gives You All These Negro Newspapers like the Jackson Advocate present the truth about stumb ling blocks

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Library of Congress1863

General Washington and General Jackson, on Negro soldiers

"An edition of 10,000 copies of this pamphlet having been placed at the disposal of the United States Sanitary Commission, the agents of the Commission are earnestly requested to give it circulation throughout the Army and Navy." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy 1 replaced by microfilm. LAC scc 2020-03-02 no edits (1 card)

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Library of Congress1895

What the Negro has done for liberty in America

Caption title. Imprint from cover. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy formerly part of YA Collection: YA 17755. Source: Source unknown.

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Library of Congress1948

Image 1 of Jackson advocate (Jackson, Miss.), March 13, 1948

muuuuuumuuuuumuumu We Stand With The J People By The People and For The People No One Is Safe Until We All n Are Saved V0LUMN x _JACKSON MISSISSIPPI MARCH 13 T948__ NUMBERZO Stale Attorney Genera Says Nothing Can Be Done About Klan Activities Whose Charter Was Revoked Last Year Negro Voters Frightened By Grand Dragons Speech Firey Cross Burns Here Wrightsville Ga ANP No Negroes voted in the Johnson county primary last week follow ing the appearance of the Ku Klux Klan in this coimty seat and an appeal to bloodshed by the KKK Grand Dragon aingNesgroe Some 300 hooded and robed klansmen paraded through the town on the eve of the election A 15 foot cross was burned on the lawn of the county courthouse Inside a circle of fully hooded and Iobed klansmen greenclad Dr Samuel Green of Atlanta grand dragon of the hate order made no direct reference to the election slated for the next day but openiy attacked President j Trumans announced program for j civil rights and threatened that j blood would flow on the streets j of the south if the Negro takes a j place at the side of white men thru 1

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Library of Congress1946

Image 2 of Jackson advocate (Jackson, Miss.), March 9, 1946

Gillem Plan For Integration Of Negro In Postwar Army In Motion PARTICIPANTS ON CBS PRO R M IN OBSERVANCE Oh I i RO newspaper WEEK 1eft to right Bill Slocum CBS Director Carol Brice contralto I who sang with her brother Jon athan Brice at the piano Dowdal n Davis advertising manager ol j THE CALL and chairman of Nh GRO NEWSPAPER WEEK who spoke on behalf of the Negro Newspaper Publishers Associa tion Don Maker announcer and Neal Scott manager and husband of Miss Brice__ California Editor Wins 500 Willkie Award For J ournalism MRS VIVIAN C MASON WINS 17000 DAMAGES PHILADELPHIA ANP rhe I nited States District court for Philadelphia last week award ed Mrs Vivian Carter Mason 17 00 in settlement for claims against the Pennsylvania railroad in a case pending since 1943 when rtio sutiered severe injuries in the Labor day wreck of the roads crack Congressional Limited in which 70 were killed and scores injured She was represented by Raymond Pace Alexander Airs Mason vice president of the National Council of Negro Women was traveling alone on the 75mileperhour express be ween Washington and New York when the wreck occurred Accord ing to evidence presented

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Library of Congress1951

Image 6 of Jackson advocate (Jackson, Miss.), May 26, 1951

T HEBER LADNER IOHCTAHV or OTAT MiaaiMirRi North Mississippi Farmers Crow Poultry Conscious An upward spurt in area poultry production is expected soon with the opening of the 50000 North Mirsissippi Broiler and Locker Pient in Balctwyn The plant is designed to help develop the poul try industry in Northeast Missis sippi and expected to begin opera tion about lime 1 The main item under the plan willbe a coopera tive growing program with the business men and farmers working together Each farmer who de cides to come in will build brooder house and other facilities for the chicks according to set specifica tions The plant will furnish the chickens and fed and the farmer will do the rest until final settle ment when the chickens are brought to the plant County agents oer this area have report ed that the entire section is becom ing poultry conscious News In Brief A new specialized curriculum leading to a bachelor of music de gree in sacred music will be added next year by the Department of Music at the Mississippi State Col lege for Women President B L Parkinson announced Graduates in the field will he qualified as ministers of music

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Library of Congress1951

Image 6 of Jackson advocate (Jackson, Miss.), June 2, 1951

Arrange Your Housecleaning Work To Avoid Strain Of Seasonal Job Here it is housecleaning time againtime for frayed family rerves lastminute meals uttei confusion in the household and a completely exhausted you But it doesnt have to he tlrat kind of time It doesnt in fact have to be at all Because ac cording to the General Electric Consumers Institute seasonal housecleaning is an unnecessary ordeal if you budget your daily weekly and monthly cleaning jobs properly 1 he first thing to Remember is that the less dirt that gets into the house in the first place the less cleaning youll have to do to get it out Dont forget such simple ounceofprevention chores as daily sweeping of walks and porches and frequent brushing of outside window sill Be sure your doors and windows fft snugly top and bottom As homemaker you probably have definite ideas about what goes into the category of daily cleaning in your home but heres a suggested schedule Air all rooms thoroughly dust furniture and woodwork including window sills empty ash trays and waste baskets vacuum rugs and brush up floors and linoleum Eliminate the need for a carpet sweeper or broom by using your

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Library of Congress1951

Image 6 of Jackson advocate (Jackson, Miss.), June 9, 1951

Muriel Rahn Hits Back At Miss Governor FW YORKMuriel Rahn W ero concert singer who snends not of her time touring the south ern states in the course of her work as an artist appealed to ev ery member of her race to take cut an additional membership in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People this week Miss Rahn stated that although she is already a member of the organization she was motivated to ohl her efforts in its behalf by the statement of Governor Fielding Wright of Mississippi who called upon the people of his state to resist the efforts of the NAACP to the fullest extent of our resources The statement which appeared in the New York Times May 28 in an article by John N Popham Times Corre spondent quoted the Governor as being opposed to Federal cases which sought to abolish segrega tion in public schools Any fainninded person under the sun who has seen the in equities of separate hut equal ed ucation in Mississippi and other southern states as 1 have would know that such a system never has and nevei will work said Miss Rahn There are millions more who

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Library of Congress1957

Image 8 of Jackson advocate (Jackson, Miss.), March 9, 1957

Los Angeles Continued from Page One believe in them for several reasons For one thing the Rev White said I want to know what is hap j pening among my own people I do not find this in other papers For another thing I believe the Ne j gro newspaper is the articulate voice of the Negro in ways no other j paper at the moment can be For another thing the Negro newspaper is a Negro business I believe in supporting Negro busi ness Finally the Negro newspaper has been the instrument for pro ducing some great newspaper peo ple and they never would have de veloped otherwise The Rev White advised his con gregation that it can take any one of the reasons mentioned above as valid for your support of the Negro press Patronize Our Advertisers This man con give you dependoble delivery of THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE VMONITOR 4 an international daily newspaper Housewives businessmen teachers and students all over the world read and enjoy this international newspaper pub lished daily in Boston World famous for constructive news stories and penetrating editorials Special features for the whole fomily ___i The Christian Science Monitor One Norway St Boston

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Library of Congress2023

Documenting Tenth Street Historic Freedmen's Town District and The Bottom District in Dallas, Texas photos

Provides a snapshot of the Tenth Street Historic Freedmen's Town District and The Bottom in Dallas, Texas, as they appeared in August 2023. Through photos, this documentation captures the remaining structures, streetscapes, and landmarks, showcasing the resilience of these historic neighborhoods amid challenges like development pressures, city-led demolitions under the 3000-square-foot rule, disinvestment, redlining, gentrification, and fires. This visual record preserves the community’s legacy, helping present and future generations understand the neighborhood’s enduring presence and spirit despite the odds, while underscoring the importance of continued preservation efforts.

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