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Contents include but are not limited to African American communities, reporting extensively on racial injustice, civil rights struggles, and social issues of the time. It covers multiple lynching cases, exclusion of Black citizens from jury service, inconsistent court rulings favoring white defendants, and calls from civil rights leaders such as lawyers, community organizers, and the NAACP for federal anti-lynching legislation. The paper also reports on local community events, church activities, civic meetings, women's organizations, and efforts by urban leagues to secure fair labor practices for Black worker. Additionally, it includes crime reports, obituaries, social announcements targeting Black readers. Overall, the issue reflects the social, political and economic challenges facing African Americans in the early 1930s highlighting both systemic discrimination and ongoing community resilience.
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Title:
Iowa bystander. volume 40, number 27, December 16, 1933
Date Created:
1933-12-16
Time Period:
1930s
Description:
Contents include but are not limited to African American communities, reporting extensively on racial injustice, civil rights struggles, and social issues of the time. It covers multiple lynching cases, exclusion of Black citizens from jury service, inconsistent court rulings favoring white defendants, and calls from civil rights leaders such as lawyers, community organizers, and the NAACP for federal anti-lynching legislation. The paper also reports on local community events, church activities, civic meetings, women's organizations, and efforts by urban leagues to secure fair labor practices for Black worker. Additionally, it includes crime reports, obituaries, social announcements targeting Black readers. Overall, the issue reflects the social, political and economic challenges facing African Americans in the early 1930s highlighting both systemic discrimination and ongoing community resilience.
Subject (Topic):
African Americans Black people African American newspapers Racial justice Civil rights Lynching African American lawyers African American churches Crime Obituaries African American political activists Discrimination
Subject (Organization):
Iowa. Supreme Court National Urban League
Contributor (Person):
Morris, James B.
Location:
Iowa--Des Moines
Language:
eng
Contributing Institution:
Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines, Iowa)
Publisher:
Iowa 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: sn83025185
Digital Object Identifier:
bystander19331216
Item Permalink:
https://n2t.net/ark:/87292/w9sq8qr5p
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 bystander. volume 40, number 27, December 16, 1933", Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines, Iowa), Amplifying Black Voices in Iowa, Iowa State University Library Digital Collections
Reference Link:
https://n2t.net/ark:/87292/w9sq8qr5p
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