The Brownies and Reimagining Old Mother Hubbard
A Baltimore piece reviews The Brownies New Magazine For Children, praising its aim to center African American children. It argues the Jan issue features colored children and challenges white-centric fairy tales, urging books that present Black characters as heroes and peers in American life.
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Meckens Weiting
Wok
Wnibols
Crisis
Janey
Alyssia
Mother Goose
Fain
Me JW Williams in Muskogee Attends Dreamland No2
Me JW Williams spent the week in Muskogee looking after Dreamland No 2 due to the absence of Manager Brown.
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JW. Williams
Muskogee
Dreamland
Capture of Force Behind Recent Strike Earns Praise
Tyson praised the employers' union and the men who handled cargoes during the strike for preventing lawless acts and violence from crippling the industries, saying authorities would have remained unable to act without their aid.
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Tyson
Pather Time Busy During the Week
The article notes the recent death of Mr. Co Wilts a respected member of Ol City Lodge No. 140 White Fellows and the First Baylist Church. It lists bereaved family and other obituaries including Miss Aran dha Woods Mrs Evaline Coffey and Pearl Washington with burial details in Kansas City.
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Bin
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Williams
Duckson
Ming
Henils
Arandha Woods
Arphen
Rive
Purtee
Vate City
Evaline Coffey
East Avel
Helen Miles
Archey St
Atlanta Hardware Men Banquet for Negro Employees
A February 17 gathering at the Business Men's Social on Auburn Avenue honored Atlanta Hardware Co. and its Colored employees with a formal dinner. FW Hosea and Dean Patten praised loyalty and service, noting the event as a demonstration of social equality.
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Hoo Hardware Company
Auburn Avenue
FW. Hosea
King Mardware Company
Dean 5
Patten
Doe Strain Company Extends Run at Deniland Theatre
Johnny Walker reports The Doe Strain Company begins a long return engagement at the Deniland Theatre this week. The troupe has continued to provide full satisfaction to patrons during its run.
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Doe Straine
Deniland Theatre
Negro Labor Migration From South Expands Across Nation
The migration of Black workers from the South continues as Northern cities' demand for labor grows. Eugene Kinnie Jones of the National Union League spoke at Tuskegee Conferences noting women workers as factory hands clerks and other roles while war production spreads into more plants and docks.
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Eugene Kinnie Jones
National Uition League
Jones
Negro churches unite to double Sunday school attendance
Dayton Ohio February reports an Oklahoma style drive to boost Colored Sunday School attendance. Contributing groups include 48 congregations and the Community Service Council. The three month campaign aims to enroll more children in Dayton's Colored Sunday Schools.
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Dayton
Ohio
Community Service Council
NECRO LABORERS SAVED OCEAN COMMERCE ON DOCKS
In San Francisco on February 13, the Waterfront Employers Union decided not to bar Negro sailors from harbor work. Matson Navigation Company and others pledged to employ Negro workers on all piers in the same proportion as during the strike, citing a moral obligation to those who aided during the emergency.
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Fecom
Waterfront Employers’ Union
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Matson Navigation Company
James Tyson
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