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Contents include but are not limited to racial violence, community events, and national civil righs issues. Its lead soty covers the indictment of 11 men for the brutal lynching of Lloyd Warner in St. Joseph, Missouri, condemning both the mob of 7,000 participants and the sheriff who surrendered the jailed youth to them. The paper also highlights James Weldon Johnson's receipt of the W.E.B Du Bois literary prize, activism by the NAACP, and President Roosevelt's call for federal laws targeting lynching and kidnapping. Additional coverage includes national lynchings statistics for 1933, local obituaries, church announcements, social happenings, sports forecasts, and community club news. Althogether, the issue belnds national outrage over racial injustice with everyday life among Black Iowans, creating a snapshot of both struggle and community resilience in early 1934.
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Title:
Iowa bystander. volume 40, number 30, January 05, 1934
Date Created:
1934-01-05
Time Period:
1930s
Description:
Contents include but are not limited to racial violence, community events, and national civil righs issues. Its lead soty covers the indictment of 11 men for the brutal lynching of Lloyd Warner in St. Joseph, Missouri, condemning both the mob of 7,000 participants and the sheriff who surrendered the jailed youth to them. The paper also highlights James Weldon Johnson's receipt of the W.E.B Du Bois literary prize, activism by the NAACP, and President Roosevelt's call for federal laws targeting lynching and kidnapping. Additional coverage includes national lynchings statistics for 1933, local obituaries, church announcements, social happenings, sports forecasts, and community club news. Althogether, the issue belnds national outrage over racial injustice with everyday life among Black Iowans, creating a snapshot of both struggle and community resilience in early 1934.
Subject (Topic):
African Americans Black people Racial justice Civil rights Lynching Missouri Kidnapping Obituaries African American churches Sports Clubs Iowa
Subject (Organization):
Du Bois Family Association
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
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Library of Congress Control Number: sn83025185
Digital Object Identifier:
bystander19340105
Item Permalink:
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"Iowa bystander. volume 40, number 30, January 05, 1934", Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines, Iowa), Amplifying Black Voices in Iowa, Iowa State University Library Digital Collections
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https://n2t.net/ark:/87292/w9dj58q62
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