"The Fourth of July celebrations in Sacramento and Marysville, completely exploded this bugbear. In the former city colored men were Marshals, colored school children rode in cars with white children, and the colored officers of the Sacramento Zouves…
"We gave last week a description of the celebration of the “Nations National Day” in this city and in Sacramento, and we now give a sketch of the celebration in Marysville, abbreviated from the Sacramento Record Of 7th inst. That paper had a special…
"We are indebted to Mr. Daniel Seales for a copy of the Daily Republican of 7th July, published at Little Rock, Arkansas, contain an account of the celebration of Independence Day of that place. The celebration was under the auspices of the “Sons of…
"Says the Detroit Free Press, “There is an old goat owned on Lowis Street, which has received a great deal of training from the boys. Last Fourth of July they discovered that if they stuck a fire cracker in the end of a cane and held it at William he…
"LOS ANGELES – A small firecracker, a small bottle of gin, and a sense of humor inspired by the gin, has caused Herman Rucker of Texas to return to that vast state in somewhat of a hurry, has cost him his pretty new wife and has set the six-foot…
"NEWARK, N.J. – The Independence Day picket line before the City Hall here – an unprecedented action in this State – forced concessions from the City Commission on the appointment of Negro physicians to the City Hospital medical staff.
"AIKEN, S.C. – (ANP) – A Fourth of July celebration that has been observed since the 1880’s at Bettis academy took place again this year when persons of this section fought a sham battle and executed fancy drill formations.
This mock warfare was…
"Just as those of the very young giggled when someone more or less tunelessly burst forth with the song, “The Old Gray Mare, She Ain’t What She Used to Be…,” and just as those of my generation have recently been tapping gloriously happy steps to the…
"WASHINGTON – Joining in a nationwide celebration of “We Serve America” week, sponsored by the National Council of Negro Women, war workers in Wake and Midway Halls, government dormitories here, paid tribute Wednesday evening to the contributions of…
"Claiming the dubious distinction of being the most belated victims of a Fourth of July prank, two men and a woman were burned and bruised about the legs Friday night by a giant fire-cracker.
Those injured when the cracker exploded in a store at…
"NEW YORK – (ANP) – Lushest take on the gate ever seen in Harlem was the Fourth of July evening at Lewisohn stadium, when a half-filled house paid the startling sum of two millions [sic] dollars to see a four-hour lang [sic] entertainment-studded…
"RICHMOND, Va. – Rumors that widespread race riots are being planned for July Fourth were branded as “erroneous” at a meeting of the Baptist Ministers’ conference of Richmond, here last week.
The group of 120 Baptist ministers, representing…
"NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Station WTIC in Hartford canceled a speech on race relation scheduled to be delivered by Prof. Maurice R. Davie of Yale university because it objected to certain references in the script about the American Red Cross policy on…
"TUSKEGEE, Ala. – (ANP) – Threats and ruses were being employed in the little town of Tuskegee, investigators found last week, to prevent witnesses from testifying when the grand jury looks into the Fourth of July slaying of Walter Gunn by a deputy…
"Exercising the democratic rights afforded them under the Constitution, the “March-On-Washington” committee held an historic meeting in Chicago Friday night.
The event brought 12,000 people to the world famous Coliseum to give a deafening ovation…
"DETROIT – (ANP) – With the state and federal troops on hand at Belle Isle park and other places of amusement through the Fourth of July Detroit spent one of its quietest holiday weekends in its history, with no further indications of a repetition of…
"Here’s hoping that you had a glorious FOURTH of July….. In Chicago’s Bronzeville, everybody had a grand time….night clubs and drink places were packed to capacity and the three-day holiday will linger long with those who made merry during the…
"WASHINGTON, (ANP)-The mobilization of “manpower” by the new board, headed by Paul V. McNutt, brings to the fore the part women are to play in the present world conflict in relieving men for active way duty and military assignments.
According to…
"INDEPENDENCE DAY IS JULY 4… You know it best as the FOURTH OF JULY… It’s a day of celebration and this year we are a bit more jubilant than last year, all because our armies were victorious over the Axis in the European theatre of war, but we must…
"LONDON – (Exclusive) – Large contingents of Afro-doughboys stationed throughout this area journeyed Londonwards over the week-end to celebrate Independence day as hosts to their English girl friends.
Highlight of the festivity was a grand cabaret…
"NEWARK, N.J. – An Independence Day picket line around the City Hall - the first of its sort in the history of the city – was slated for Tuesday morning, July 3.
The line, called by Allen E. Harris, president of Essex County Equality League, was to…
"TRENTON, Ga.-There may be more for the United States to celebrate on July 4 than its independence-Dade County, Georgia, which seceded from the Union July 4, 1860, will decide whether it wants to return or not.
The U.S. flag has not waved legally…
"The Chicago Defender employees celebrated Fourth of July by going to Abbottsford, country home of Mrs. Robert S. Abbott, Benton Harbor, Mich., for a picnic. They arranged to have wives, husbands and friends motor up for the day. Over 100 persons…
MY COUSIN Lizzie from down in Texas has sent me a letter telling me that the folks up on Bull Creek will be holding their Independence Day picnic this July 4, and why don’t I come on down to make them on a speech.
Last…
Morgantown, N.C., July 8.— "A mob estimated at more than 2,000 whites, business men and church workers, started the celebration of the Fourth of July at Linville Falls, 30 miles from here, Sunday by piercing the body of Broadus Miller, alleged slayer…
Elkins, W. Va. – "The show rolled in here for a big Fourth of July celebration, but the heavy downpour of rain prevented, therefor we had a quiet, wet Fourth. It seems the show has taken on new life this week, as Col. Jack and Mrs. Cronin came back,…
La Rochelle, France, July 30.— "The Fourth of July was celebrated in commemoration of American independence by Consul and Mrs. W.J. Yerby at La Rochelle in their lovely villa, 23 Avenue du Mail. The reception was announced to begin at 5 and close at…
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Editor the Defender: The Fourth of July comes and goes and there is very little effort on the part of our public men to teach the people just what that day means, not only to the people in the United States, but to the…
"Just what does the Fourth of July mean to you ? This question, if put to white citizens of America, would draw such replies as you have heard made in speeches and have read in books all your lives. But, if put directly to you, what would it mean?…
"This July 4 stuff is all the bunk, says a distinguished Princeton professor, who asserts that the day we have been celebrating all these years as Independence day had very little to do with American Independence. The famous declaration that set…
"The Ray Potter Waller’ Civic association, in co-operation with the mayor’s committee for Independence day celebrations in Manhattan, is sponsoring a “pageant of youth” in Harlem on the Fourth.
The festivities will begin at 10 o’clock in the…
"Praque, Czechoslovakia, July 4 (By A.P.). – A great crowd, representing Czech Sokol societies frim all parts of the world, helped the Americans who are here for the great Sokol demonstration, celebrate the Fourth of July in impressive style today.…
"We hold these truths to be self-evident that men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Lest we forget, even amid this loud din of…
"NEWARK. N.J- Shady Rest Country Club celebrated with fourth of July attractions, last Friday: Golf, tennis, and cardplaying, with numbers of basket lunches.
A representative group of the New York and New Jersey Wilberforce University Alumni Club…
"When giant fireworks, pin-wheels, sparklers, and cap pistols are being used to celebrate the Fourth of July, nothing is farther from mind of the average child than what Independence Day really means. Little fellows who throw torpedoes on car tracks…
"The Declaration of Independence was adopted July 4, 1776 . This Saturday we celebrate the 155th anniversary of the day upon which our colonial forefathers determined to separate themselves from England.
"Where was the Negro on that day in ’76,
When the fearless patriots laid down the pen;
The document signed that before earth and heaven,
Proclaimed them to be forever free men?
Perhaps Black Sampson worked amid the wheat,
Swinging his…
"Coal has gone up in New York.
The sugar trust has failed in its efforts to raise prices.
It is announced the W.J. Campbell will decline the Republican national chairmanship.
Elections in England on Monday and Tuesday show Liberal gains, and…
"Dealers in New York city say that the demand for fireworks is unprecedented. More fireworks will sizzle, boom and sputter than ever before, and the small boys of the land will explode over 3,200,000,000 firecrackers in homage of liberty. Inquiries…
"The Great Fourth of July feast, which commences on the lawn of Mt. Horeb Church to-day, will close with a drill of their several societies on Monday and Tuesday evening at 16th st., and N. Carolina avenue.
The out-door concert at Lane’s Chapel on…
"The Fourth of July is a National Day of freedom, is indisputably righteous and Divinely dedicated for the happiness of mankind.
Just 120 years from the last Saturday, the Convention of the Thirteen Colonies declared themselves then, on behalf of…
"Hurrah for the glorious Fourth of July! Fire salutes. Make patriotic speeches- celebrate, folks, celebrate. Bang! Bomb! Hurrah! But stop the noise just a minute while we think of what a certain important document means. I frequently think of the…
"Independence Day commonly known as the Fourth of July is the day for the white man. It was on that day that the white man declared his independence and swore allegiance to America. This declaration made the white man of America free but enslaved the…
"Racial troubles have been rampant since the Fourth of July amongst boys who are in the reforestation camps in Pennsylvania. When a contingent of Pittsburgh boys left here on the night of the national holiday the two cars on the rear of the train…
"The Baltimore & Ohio R. R. will sell excursion tickets to and from all points east of the Ohio River, within a radius of 200 miles (but not to and from stations east of Baltimore, Md.), for all trains July 2d, 3d and 4th, valid for return passage…
"The traveling man who sells hardware remarked that he was afraid he would die of heart disease if he was ever compelled to go to the front. His friends wanted to know what made him think so, and after lighting a fresh cigar he said:
“It was…
"The editorial which appeared in the AFRO-AMERICAN entitled “What to us is the fourth of July?” as not only timely but one that should receive the serious consideration of every Negro. In logic and freedom of expression it ranks in the same category…
"Traveling in Dixie
Birmingham, Ala.- The more I travel in the Southland which, I am happy to report, has in precious little to date, the more convinced I am that Jim Crow exists largely because of interracial co-operation. The “pecks” are mean and…