Name/Title
Beshears: Citizen CrusaderEntry/Object ID
2022.40.17Scope and Content
A 12 page newspaper "Citizen Crusader, Seeking New Frontiers of Community Purpose", Friday, March 17, 1961, Vol. 1, Number 11, St Louis, Mo. The front page outlines the article 'HousingUnits Crime Rate Down DOWN 20% OVER 59' with a picture of a police officer holding the arm of a youth behind his back. It lists other articles and the page where the story can be found.Context
Page 2 articles: '4 Freedoms Hotel Opened In Florida'; 'McNeal Bill Aids Home Buyers Against Fraud'; NAACP Sit-In Stabbed After 192 Are Jailed in S. C.'.
Page 3: 'Survey Shows Negro Unemployment Is Three Times Average in Major Cities' '50-City Survey Shows Negroes Hardest Hit'. 'POWELL CLEANS OUT LABOR COMMITTEE'.
Page 4; St. Louis Branch Push For 10,000 Members'. The article includes pictures of Ward representatives: Mrs. Olivia Calloway, Dorothy Richardson, Mrs. Kitty Hall, Mrs. Lillie Pearson, H. Gay, S. Holland, and Mrs Sara Lavington. Other articles: 'ADA Sponsors Roosevelt Day Dinner Meet'; "No Money For Segregated Schools"; ' Pan Hellenic Council Meets'.
Page 5. 'Pick The 10 Most Influential Negroes In St Louis' accompanied by pictures of 24 candidates and a ballot for readers to choose their top ten.
Page 6: EDITORIALS "THE TIME IS NOW". " . . I Will Not Retreat a Single Inch - And I Will Be Heard". "ONCE UPON A TIME, By Ernest Calloway, Publisher.
Page 7. "Collapse Of The Tucker 'Brick & Mortar' Image" By Ernest Calloway, Publisher. Sub headings: The Panic Button; The Great Image; Break Down of Vote; Negro Wards; Chambers Is Victor. 'Phoney Public Hearing of St. Louis Election Board Rapped.
Page 8 articles: 'The International Trade Union Scene - Free Labour World' and associated pictures. 'MERLON HINES'. 'Kennedy's Prosecutor Made $8,000 Kick-Back Payment to Judge; Resigns'; 6,000 Surplus Food Applicants' 'ARTHUR MARTIN'.
Page 9 'YOUTH IN ACTION' arthur shaw. Pictures of members and sympathizers to the CORE.
Page 10 'FOR THE WOMAN': 'Around the Town', sub headings: Breakfast With The Mayor'; About The Spring Metroplex'; 'Sit-In Mothers'; and 'Here And There'. Articles on '25th Wedding Anniversary', 'Sigma Gamma Rho Meets' and 'Your Handy Cheese Chart'.
Page 11. 'Sports - Big Daddy's Corner". 'Patterson Wins in 6th' . 'Liston Scores'. 'Mr. Stilts'.
Page 12 "Bill To Aid Children of Unemployed' with a picture of a woman surrounded by 6 under school age grandchildren waiting to have her ADC case reviewed. The rest of the page is advertisements.Collection
Beshears, KelseyLexicon
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11½" x17¾"
