What Colored Folks did.

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The California Eagle was a Negro newspaper in Los Angeles, California. It was founded as The Owl in 1879 by John J. Neimore. The newspaper was renamed the California Eagle and continued in print until 1964.

Charlotta Spears assumed control of the paper after Neimore's death in 1912. She hired J. B. Bass who would eventually serve as editor until his death in 1934. Charlotta and J.B. married in 1914; historically, she is better known as Charlotta Bass. She retired from the newspaper business in 1951. In 1952 she became the first Colored woman to run for national office as the Vice Presidential candidate on the Progressive Party ticket.

Loren Miller, a civil liberties lawyer and city editor of the Eagle, bought the newspaper after Bass' departure. Loren sold the paper in 1964 to accept an appointment as a justice to the State Supreme Court. The publication also closed that year. - Michael Scipio  




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This is a good reminder of how divided Negroes were during the years after slavery on what was the best course of action to win over white folks' resistance to the liberation of 'their' Negroes. What is lost in the current version of the Civil Rights movement is how unpopular King's ideas were at the time. Too much rage had accumulated in the chests of men and women, who'd already taken up arms against whites. There were a number of Black men who had killed white men down South living in the North hiding from the cracker mentality of the South!. . .

I am gonna stop there. Here is a good place for young people to start to think. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 12/18/17 




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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with his family.

“I think we should be slow in criticizing Martin Luther King; he was brave enough to put his life on the line for what he believed. We’re still here talking. That’s proof enough of his bravery over ours.”

~ Dr. John Henrik Clarke.