Americans with African Heritage, 1919-1945

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1/3/1919, Discrimination by American Officers Arouses Ire of the French

7/18/1936, Mobs in Harlem Go on Window-Breaking Spree of Italian Restaurants After Anti-Mussolini Speaker Attacked

7/18/1936, Revival of Original Dixieland Band Recalls Origin of Jazz

7/30/1936; Grand Coulee Dam Construction Project on the Columbia River, Washington, One of World's Colossal Undertakings

Note: The Grand Coulee Dam came on line just in time to support the WWII war effort by providing power for shipyards and bomber-production factories. ... As a government funded project, it facilitated wealth creation in the form of electricity and agricultural.

Grand Coulee Dam, Satellite View

Grand Coulee Dam, History & Purpose

Grand Coulee Dam, Photo Overview

Grand Coulee Dam, Wikipedia

Grand Coulee Dam, Aerial Photo

Grand Coulee Dam Hydroelectric Power Generation

Grand Coulee Dam, Spillway Closeup Photo

8/1/1936, U.S. Olympic Team Reaches Germany, Officials Ban Autograph Seekers from Swarming Jesse Owens

Jesse Owens Biography

Hitler and Jesse Owens

8/1/1936; Mussolini to Recruit Army of 45,000 Ethiopian Warriors; Each Man to Get Rifle, Uniform, & $10 a Month

8/1/1936, Judge W.M. Dinwiddie Upholds University of Missouri's Jim Crow Rule Denying Lloyd Gains Entry into Law School

Jim Crow Laws

8/1/1936, Jesse Owens & U.S. Colored Athletes Singled Out for Special Boosting Upon Landing in France, Part 1

8/1/1936, Jesse Owens & U.S. Colored Athletes Singled Out for Special Boosting Upon Landing in France, Part 2

8/1/1936, New York Black Yankees Sweep Three Games from Washington Elite Giants at Griffith Stadium in Negro N.L.

8/1/1936; Bank of Sydney Net Profit for Year Ending 6/30 at ₤298,227, Up ₤34,290 from 1935's ₤263,937; 1934 = ₤256,731

8/1/1936; Rodney Frank Shead, 31, Farmer, Pleads Guilty to Stealing Saddle Valued at ₤3, the Property of George Roman

8/1/1936, Thomas Quinn, Taxi Driver, Charged with Operating a Motor Car Under the Influence of Liquor, Remanded Until Aug 7

8/1/1936, Abyssinian Bands Attack Addis Ababa but Are Repulsed with Heavy Losses by Italian Planes, Abyssinians Capture Dessie

8/27/1938, Pittsburgh Crawfords Split Bargain Bill with Baltimore Elite Giants, Barney Morris Fans 13 Elites in Nightcap

8/27/1938, West Edges East 5-4 in Negro N.L. All Star Game Before 30,000 in Chicago, Robinson HR, Mayor Kelly Tosses First Pitch

9/3/1938; Mrs. Mary King, 1235 T Street, President & Treasurer of the Lonely Heart Club, Charged with Embezzling $70

9/10/1938; Jim Crow for Jews in Italy, One Italian Parent OK; Not as Bad as U.S. Where One Drop of Colored Blood is Not Ok

9/10/1938, President Roosevelt (Democrat) Prefers Liberal Republicans to Conservative (Southern) Democrats

1/5/1943, Staff of White Instructors Increased in the Army Colored Flying School Near Tuskegee, Part 1

1/5/1943, Staff of White Instructors Increased in the Army Colored Flying School Near Tuskegee, Part 2

1/5/1943, Yugoslavs Wage Large-Scale Guerilla War Against Axis

1/5/1943; Col. Loving & Wife Are Prisoners of Japs in Manila, Confined to Home, Permitted Out Only One Hour a Day

1/5/1943, The U.S. Is Now Ready to Pour Men, Weapons, & Material into Distant Battlefields for Eventual Defeat of the Enemy

1/5/1943, Quartermaster Replacement Training Center Provides Human Logistics for Recruits of Fort Lee's 2nd Colored Brigade

1/5/1943, Army Chaplain Finds "White Christmas" Is Real in New England

1/5/1943, Colored T.B. Deaths Increase, White Rate Declines, Survey Reveals Most Deaths in Northern Cities

1/30/1943, Negro Scientist Dr. George Washington Carver Was Traded for a Horse but Gave his People Prosperity

1/30/1943, Russians Rout Seven Reich Divisions

1/30/1943, N.A.A.C.P. Says 1942 Was Banner Year with 160,000 Paid Members

History of the N.A.A.C.P. (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)

6/10/1944, Ship Captain Denied Hotel in S. Africa Due to Skin Color, U.S. Negro Illiteracy Down from 70% in 1880 to 10%

6/10/1944, Communique No. 9 Reports Allied Front Expanding to 30 Miles in France, German Counterattack Repulsed Near Caen

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