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April 19, 2013
Having just seen the wonderful film, "42," the other day, I, too, was struck by the absence of a mention of the Baltimore Afro-American's Sam Lacy in the sports reporting of such a momentous time in baseball, America's and civil rights history. Your article, "Sam Lacy's son upset by father's absence from '42'" (April 16) reveals Tim Lacy's surprise and hurt by the absence of any mention of his father's name despite all of his reporting as an eyewitness to history with Wendell Smith (the Pittsburgh Courier editor-reporter featured in the movie)
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By Jacques Kelly and Jacques Kelly,SUN STAFF | October 4, 2001
John Stanley Lanier, a retired printer who made daily visits to Druid Hill Park for more than 30 years, died Friday at Upper Chesapeake Medical Center in Bel Air of a heart attack. He was 75 and had lived in Northwest Baltimore before moving to Edgewood in 1999. A former printer and Linotype operator for The Boston Globe, The Sun and Baltimore Afro-American, he left the printing business nearly 40 years ago. In the years after World War II, he studied journalism at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass.
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By GREGORY KANE | April 10, 1996
DEAR DELEGATE Rawlings et al:On Thursday, this paper printed a letter from you and eight other members of the House of Delegates objecting to an editorial cartoon that ran March 29. The offending drawing was "outrageous" and "cater[ed] to vile racial stereotypes," you wrote.The cartoon showed Julius Henson and Joan Pratt seemingly embracing in a Sunpapers editorial office as an unsuspecting woman walked in on them. The caption read, "You can't do that in The Sun's editorial offices!" Your letter said that the cartoon "missed the point entirely.
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By Peter Kumpa | February 24, 1992
MY LIFE AND TIMES. By Verda F. Welcome as told to James M. Abraham. Henry House Publishers, Englewood, N.J. 310 pages, $19.95. ON A snowy and blustery day, Sen. Verda Freeman Welcome steered her sedan north from Baltimore to Harrisburg, slipping bTC and sliding all the way, terrifying her companion, Del. Lena K. Lee. They were headed for a regional strategy session of black state legislators.The trouble was that when they arrived, shaken but secure, no other out-of-state lawmakers had risked the treacherous trip.
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By GREGORY KANE | May 14, 2008
Those students at Doris M. Johnson High School are at it again, and this time they've ventured where few in their generation have ever ventured before. You might have read about DMJ students before, in this column, about this time last year, to be precise. Students then gave presentations on the civil rights movement in Maryland. The site was the Maryland Historical Society. Some of the same students were back again this year, along with a few new ones, giving a presentation they called Collision: People and Events that Shaped the Vietnam Era in Maryland.
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By Michael A. Fletcher and Michael A. Fletcher,Staff Writer | August 8, 1992
In 1921, a Cambridge, Md., court sentenced a white man to three years in prison for the murder of the black supervisor of Dorchester County schools. About the same time in nearby Easton, a one-legged black man got 18 years for knocking down and threatening a white girl. The cases offered a clear example of the racial double standard of the times. But they would have gone unnoticed were it not for the Baltimore Afro-American. "Georgia, with its lynchings and its peonage has little to offer that is more putrid than this miscarriage of justice," the paper said in an editorial.