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 Desegregating the Nation's Capital (Collier's Magazine, 1953)
When it became known that President Eisenhower wished to integrate Washington, D.C., cries went forth proclaiming it a Jim Crow town! Journalist Howard Whitman (1914 - 1975) found this curious, and he began investigating just how tough a time the President would have tearing down the walls of segregation in the Nation's Capital. Others had tried before Eisenhower and found no success. Whitman looked into public transportation, hospitals, theaters, restaurants, the D.C. Fire department, the Parks Department, real estate and the membership requirements of the National Press Club - an interesting read.
Witness on Azusa Street (LA Times, 1906)
Between 1906 and 1909, the Holy Spirit had come to dwell among the people in Los Angeles. One April day, in a run-down livery stable that was converted to a church, Pastor William Seymore (1870 – 1922) broke out into tongues and so did everyone within earshot. In fact, people blocks away began to speak in tongues and witnessing to all passersby. Within no time, the walls of that "tumble-down shack on Azusa Street" were decorated with the crutches, canes and hearing horns of the recently healed.
'Obamacare' in the Forties (Atlanta Journal, 1949, Newsweek Magazine, 1945, etc.)
"The President wanted medical, dental and hospital care for all. Doctor's fees would be paid by a Government insurance fund, financed by a 3% payroll tax, paid 50-50 by employee and employer."
(Strange that sexual reassignment surgery wasn't included...)
Meet Margaret Sanger (Pathfinder Magazine, 1936)
"Persistence has been characteristic of Mrs. Sanger. Principally because of her long campaign, 235 birth control clinics have been made lawful in the United States.... In 1913 Mrs. Sanger started a magazine called The Women Rebel which was quickly banned by postal authorities. For some time after that she faced trouble, sometimes landing in jail and sometimes being fined."
Kennedy vs. Nixon: a Cartoon (Monocle, 1961)
This is a very funny cartoon that was published in a long forgotten satire magazine from the early Sixties - you'll enjoy it.
Arab Population Growth as Israel is Reborn (PM Tabloid, 1945)
"It is in Palestine where the Jews are building a national home, that the Arab enjoys higher standards of living and of health than anywhere in the Middle East... The Arab population of Palestine has risen from 600,000 to 1,200,00."
Klan Methods and Customs (Literary Digest, 1922)
This article reported on the alarming growth and surprising appeal that the KKK was attaining in 1922. The unnamed journalist described numerous incidences that clearly reflected the Klan's open contempt for law throughout the country- concluding that the Klan "was beyond redemption." The article revealed that the newspaper editors who lived and worked in those regions where the Klan was most active had greater contempt for them than we otherwise might have been lead to believe.
''The Girl Who Started the Civil-Rights Breakthrough'' (Pageant Magazine, 1964)
This article recalls the story behind the 1954 Supreme Court case Brown vs. the Board of Education.
Young Picasso (Vanity Fair Magazine, 1923)
"Upon his first arrival in Paris, Picasso met with success. It was '99... At that time he had a face of ivory, and was as beautiful as a Greek boy; irony, thought and effort have brought slight lines to the waxen countenance of this little Napoleonic man... At that time, Picasso was living the life of the provincial in Paris... He had won fame there by his portraits of actresses in the public eye. Jeanne Bloch, Otero - all the stars of the Exposition. Those paintings are priceless today; the intelligent museums have bought them."
Seeing the ''Wonder Machine'' for the First Time... (Delineator Magazine, 1937)
This is one of the most enjoyable early television articles: an eye-witness account of one the first T.V. broadcasts from the R.C.A. Building in New York City during the November of 1936. The viewing was set up strictly for members of the American press corps and the excitement of this one journalist clearly could not be contained:
"In the semi-darkness we sat in tense silence waiting to see the premiere demonstration of television... Television! What would it be like?"
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