"CHICAGO (UPI)– Two South Side Chicago views were arrested on Independence Day and charged with disorderly conduct for allegedly burning a small American flag.
Patrolman Eugene Abington, who made the arrest, identified to use as D patrolman Eugene…
"Brooklyn, N. Y., July 17 I clipped the following from the New York Herald-Tribune of July 4,
1931: “Detroit, July 3. Folded into a tiny coop where his chin rests on his knees and his arms
cannot be stretched full length, Ike Morrow is headed back…
BOSTON, MASS., June 1, 1927---
“Last Week’s continued rate of “two lynchings a week: has aroused fresh interest in the proposal urged by the National Equal Rights League that June 17th, anniversary of Bunker Hill be everywhere publicly celebrated…
"PLAINS, Ga. - About 150 chanting demonstrators with banners denouncing President Carter’s human rights policy marched through his hometown, demanding freedom for a young black woman convicted of killing a white man she claims tried to rape her.
The…
"[Picture] Mrs.Myrlie Evers, widow of slain NAACP official Medgar Evers, was slated to lead the July Fourth mass march in Chicago, according to Chicago to NAACP leaders [Caption].
A fourth of July “March to Freedom” was to highlight the 54th six-day…
"At a Fourth of July demonstration at Gwynn Oak Amusement Park in 1963, 22 ministers were arrested protesting racial discrimination at the park: among them was Monsignor Austin Healy who represented the Cardinal and the Archdiocese of Baltimore.…
"Everyone and his brother, from the White House on down, sought to tie his moral convictions, his politics or his identity to the Fourth of July. The leaders of some of the many protests against the war in Vietnam scheduled a gathering in Washington,…
"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…
"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…
"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.