Juneteenth 

Juneteenth is not mentioned in the 1921 New York newspapers. Unable to report about Juneteenth in New York, we ask that you to take another look at our frequent coverage of Black culture in NYC of one hundred years ago today. We concentrated on Black politics, arts, business, and more, throughout Black History Month, both in February 2020 and February 2021. And we have highlighted Black NYC on many other dates.

In particular, we’ll list here a sampling of posts related to civil rights and anti-Black violence.

May 20, 1920: Oscar Michaux's Within Our Gates

June 19, 1920: James Weldon Johnson on lynchings

July 2, 1920: Claude McKay’s poem “The Lynching” 

August 1, 1920: Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) conference 

October 16, 1920: Black Voters

November 26, 1921: the KKK in NYC

January 16, 1921: White Supremacy on the Rise in NYC

TAGS: Black, African American, civil rights, slavery