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Black ink on white newsprint (6 pages) From donor Jim Collison: “My involvement with the Waterloo Star was as a columnist. I wrote the Smitty’s Punches column under the pen name Wellington Smith, because at the time I was employed as a staff writer for the Waterloo Courier. If the editor or the publisher had known of my involvement with and advocacy of the “Negro cause” I would have been fired immediately. The first column (in the September 13, 1956, issue) carried this Editor’s note: “The author, who wishes to remain anonymous, will use as his by-line names of two Negro friends he once worked with – Smith, respected for his honesty and courage; Wellington, equally courageous and honest, remembered for his friendly cheerfulness. It seems the Waterloo Star ceased publication with the 12th issue, certainly sometime in early 1957.”
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Title:
Waterloo Star, Volume 1, No. 5, October 11, 1956
Date Created:
1956-10-11
Time Period:
1950s
Description:
Black ink on white newsprint (6 pages) From donor Jim Collison: “My involvement with the Waterloo Star was as a columnist. I wrote the Smitty’s Punches column under the pen name Wellington Smith, because at the time I was employed as a staff writer for the Waterloo Courier. If the editor or the publisher had known of my involvement with and advocacy of the “Negro cause” I would have been fired immediately. The first column (in the September 13, 1956, issue) carried this Editor’s note: “The author, who wishes to remain anonymous, will use as his by-line names of two Negro friends he once worked with – Smith, respected for his honesty and courage; Wellington, equally courageous and honest, remembered for his friendly cheerfulness. It seems the Waterloo Star ceased publication with the 12th issue, certainly sometime in early 1957.”
Subject (Topic):
African Americans Black people African American newspapers Black newspapers
Subject (Organization):
Waterloo Post
Location:
Iowa--Waterloo
Latitude:
42.49583
Longitude:
-92.3428
Language:
eng
Source:
Grout Museum District African American Newspapers
Contributing Institution:
Grout Museum District
Extent:
6 pages
Genre:
newsprint
Type:
Text
Format:
image/jpeg
Digital Collection Title:
Amplifying Black Voices in Iowa
Digital Collection Permalink:
https://n2t.net/ark:/87292/w9156m
Digital Object Identifier:
gmd2010257007001
Item Permalink:
https://n2t.net/ark:/87292/w9n87368d
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/
Source
Suggested Citation:
"Waterloo Star, Volume 1, No. 5, October 11, 1956", Grout Museum District, Amplifying Black Voices in Iowa, Iowa State University Library Digital Collections
Reference Link:
https://n2t.net/ark:/87292/w9n87368d
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Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
Standardized Rights:
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