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Contents include but are not limited to local social news (illnesses, travel, weddings, dinner parties, and obituaries), religious activities and church events (St. Paul A.M.E., Union Congregational, Corinthian Baptist, A.M.E. churches across Iowa), club meetings and cultural programs (City Federation, Young Women’s Club, Lyceum Society, Negro Business League, Art and Culture Club, Sewing Circles), reports of educational milestones and alumni organizing (University of Iowa Colored Alumni Association, Drake University graduates, Piney Woods School), expansion of Black-owned businesses (drugstore, grocery, restaurant, hotel, foot comfort shop), tributes to leaders (Prof. Wm. Pickens, Mrs. Gertrude E. Durden-Rush, Mrs. Maude Wilkinson), funerals and obituaries (Elmer Richardson, Samantha Phillpot, Sarah Armstrong, Mary Draper Lee), state-wide fraternal events (Heroines of Jericho, Eastern Star celebrations, Masonic and Odd Fellows meetings), regional updates from Boone, Albia, Moberly, Ottumwa, Davenport, Quincy, Burlington, Washington, Galesburg, and Sioux City, and other topics.
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Title:
Iowa state bystander. volume 20, number 51, June 12, 1914
Date Created:
1914-06-12
Time Period:
1910s
Description:
Contents include but are not limited to local social news (illnesses, travel, weddings, dinner parties, and obituaries), religious activities and church events (St. Paul A.M.E., Union Congregational, Corinthian Baptist, A.M.E. churches across Iowa), club meetings and cultural programs (City Federation, Young Women’s Club, Lyceum Society, Negro Business League, Art and Culture Club, Sewing Circles), reports of educational milestones and alumni organizing (University of Iowa Colored Alumni Association, Drake University graduates, Piney Woods School), expansion of Black-owned businesses (drugstore, grocery, restaurant, hotel, foot comfort shop), tributes to leaders (Prof. Wm. Pickens, Mrs. Gertrude E. Durden-Rush, Mrs. Maude Wilkinson), funerals and obituaries (Elmer Richardson, Samantha Phillpot, Sarah Armstrong, Mary Draper Lee), state-wide fraternal events (Heroines of Jericho, Eastern Star celebrations, Masonic and Odd Fellows meetings), regional updates from Boone, Albia, Moberly, Ottumwa, Davenport, Quincy, Burlington, Washington, Galesburg, and Sioux City, and other topics.
Subject (Topic):
African Americans Black people African American churches African American families Families African American women Clubs African American women--Societies and clubs Obituaries Social movements Vocational education African American fraternal organizations Fraternal organizations
Subject (Organization):
Order of the Eastern Star
Contributor (Person):
Ruff, Charles S. Ruff, Thaddeus S. Thompson, John L. (John Lay), 1869-1930
Location:
Iowa--Des Moines
Language:
eng
Contributing Institution:
State Historical Society of Iowa
Publisher:
Iowa State Bystander Pub. Co.
Extent:
4 pages
Genre:
Newspapers
Type:
Text Image
Format:
image/jpeg
Digital Collection Title:
Amplifying Black Voices in Iowa
Digital Collection Permalink:
https://n2t.net/ark:/87292/w9156m
Related Resource:
Library of Congress Control Number: sn83025186
Digital Object Identifier:
bystander1914061201
Item Permalink:
https://n2t.net/ark:/87292/w9mp4vw7p
Metadata License:
This metadata record is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
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"Iowa state bystander. volume 20, number 51, June 12, 1914", State Historical Society of Iowa, Amplifying Black Voices in Iowa, Iowa State University Library Digital Collections
Reference Link:
https://n2t.net/ark:/87292/w9mp4vw7p
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