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Contents include but are not limited to a wide range of national and local events affecting African American communities, including legal battles such as the retrial of two members of the "Trenton Six," NAACP efforts to end segregation in the U.S. military, and Thurgood Marshall's trip to Japan to investigate discriminatory courts martial of Black soldiers. Locally in Iowa, the paper highlights community appointments such as Gwendolyn Fowlder becoming an assistant chemist at the state agriculture department criminal cases, social events, club meetings, church activities, and civic concerns like discriminatory hirign in Des Moines businesses. It also includes human-interest stories, public health notices, advertisements, and coverage of ongoing civil rights advocacy, reflecting the broader climate of racial inequality and community resilience in the early 1950s
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Title:
Iowa bystander. volume 56, number 31, January 18, 1951
Date Created:
1951-01-18
Time Period:
1950s
Description:
Contents include but are not limited to a wide range of national and local events affecting African American communities, including legal battles such as the retrial of two members of the "Trenton Six," NAACP efforts to end segregation in the U.S. military, and Thurgood Marshall's trip to Japan to investigate discriminatory courts martial of Black soldiers. Locally in Iowa, the paper highlights community appointments such as Gwendolyn Fowlder becoming an assistant chemist at the state agriculture department criminal cases, social events, club meetings, church activities, and civic concerns like discriminatory hirign in Des Moines businesses. It also includes human-interest stories, public health notices, advertisements, and coverage of ongoing civil rights advocacy, reflecting the broader climate of racial inequality and community resilience in the early 1950s
Subject (Topic):
African Americans Black people Trenton Six Trial (Trenton, New Jersey : 1948-1951) Segregation Investigations Courts-martial and courts of inquiry Iowa Agricultural exhibitions Iowa--Des Moines Advertising Civil rights Community activists
Subject (Person):
Marshall, Thurgood, 1908-1993
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:
6 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:
bystander19510118
Item Permalink:
https://n2t.net/ark:/87292/w90863d2x
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 56, number 31, January 18, 1951", 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/w90863d2x
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