Archives - Finding Aid of the Milwaukee Journal Stations Records

African Americans

1950 | 1951 | 1952 | 1953 | 1961 | 1963 | 1965 | 1967 | 1969

Month/Day/Year: October 18, 1950
Segment Number: 18
Segment Description: The Milwaukee Newsreel Program. Army Corporal Albert Griffin, Jr. of 2421-A North 6th Street recuperates at home. Griffin was injured in Korea and received the Silver and Bronze Stars. He is seen in uniform with his mother and brother George.
Notes: The film is black and white and does not have sound; there is a script. The film has been transferred to videotape; see videotape #1.

Month/Day/Year: November 15, 1950
Segment Number: 17
Segment Description: The Milwaukee Newsreel Program. William Kelley was the recipient of the 1950 Distinguished Service Award from the Milwaukee Cosmopolitan Club. Kelley was the executive secretary of the Urban League.
Notes: The film is black and white and does not have sound; there is a script. The film has been transferred to videotape; see videotape #1.

Month/Day/Year: March 21, 1951
Segment Number: 12
Segment Description: The Milwaukee Newsreel Program. The Urban League handed out its annual awards in recognition of work promoting good human relations. A few of the recipients were Mattibbell Woods, Horace Edwards, Mrs. Wilbur Halyard, Virginia Huebner, and Theodore Coggs.
Notes: The film is black and white and does not have sound; there is a script. The film has been transferred to videotape; see videotape #4.

Month/Day/Year: May 16, 1951
Segment Number: 4
Segment Description: The Milwaukee Newsreel Program. Mrs. Cecil A. Fischer received the Kentucky Mother of the Year Award from alumni of Kentucky State College. Lincoln Gaines of the alumni group and Roy Peoples made the presentation. See script for the names of her family present.
Notes: The film is black and white and does not have sound; there is a script. The film has been transferred to videotape; see videotape #5.

Month/Day/Year: July 11, 1951
Segment Number: 7
Segment Description: The Milwaukee Newsreel Program. Commercial for the Gas Company featuring the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Gayle at 2360 North 5th Street. The couple is seen inside their home.
Notes: The film is black and white and does not have sound; there is a script. The film has been transferred to videotape; see videotape #18.

Month/Day/Year: August 8, 1951
Segment Number: 4
Segment Description: The Milwaukee Newsreel Program. The Central Association of Colored Women held their convention in Milwaukee at Mt. Zion Baptist Church. National officers Irene McCoy and Grace Wilson Evans attended the meeting.
Notes: The film is black and white and does not have sound; there is a script. The film has been transferred to videotape; see videotape #20.

Month/Day/Year: September 26, 1951
Segment Number: 12
Segment Description: The Milwaukee Newsreel Program. The second annual Urban League Community Fair began with a parade featuring the Elks Bronzeville Drum and Bugle Corp. Miss Urban League, Beatrice Suttle, rode in a car with Alderman Fred Meyers.
Notes: The film is black and white and does not have sound; there is a script. The film has been transferred to videotape; see videotape #19.

Month/Day/Year: November 21, 1951
Segment Number: 4
Segment Description: The Milwaukee Newsreel Program. Walter White, executive secretary of the NAACP, talked with Mrs. Wilbur Haylard, executive secretary of the local NAACP, and Virginia Huebner of the state industrial commission.
Notes: The film is black and white and does not have sound; there is a script. The film has been transferred to videotape; see videotape #21.

Month/Day/Year: July 2, 1952
Segment Number: 7
Segment Description: The Milwaukee Newsreel Program. The Wisconsin and Illinois Negro Elks held a beauty contest as part of their convention. Raymond Renfro, Exalted Leader of the Wisconsin Elks, was at the South Side Armory when Geraldine Archie was crowned; Georgia Thomas was 2nd and Mildred Thomas 3rd.
Notes: The film is black and white and does not have sound; there is a script. The film has been transferred to videotape; see videotape #7.

Month/Day/Year: September 17, 1952
Segment Number: 6
Segment Description: The Milwaukee Newsreel Program. Footage of the parade that was part of the annual Milwaukee Urban League Community Fair. The parade featured the Elks Bronzeville Drum and Bugle Corps and the Queen of the Fair Essie Willis.
Notes: The film is black and white and does not have sound; there is a script. The film has been transferred to videotape; see videotape #8.

Month/Day/Year: February 25, 1953
Segment Number: 7
Segment Description: The Milwaukee Newsreel Program. A $300 scholarship was awarded by the Wisconsin Negro Business Directory to help African American youths. Donald Goggans received the scholarship from Leonard Brady and Mary Ellen Shad. Judge Myron Gordon gave a speech.
Notes: The film is black and white and does not have sound; there is a script. The film has been transferred to videotape; see videotape #11.

Month/Day/Year: August 26, 1953
Segment Number: 2
Segment Description: The Milwaukee Newsreel Program. Pfc. George McGowain visited his brother James in Milwaukee. He was a prisoner of war (POW) in Korea for two and a half years. He talked about his experience in a POW camp.
Notes: The film is black and white and does have sound; there is a script. The film has been transferred to videotape; see videotape #13.

Month/Day/Year: December 9, 1953
Segment Number: 3
Segment Description: The Milwaukee Newsreel Program. William V. Kelley, executive secretary of the Urban League, was honored at the League's annual meeting. Mrs. Perry Anderson presided over the meeting. Former Arkansas Governor Sidney McMath spoke on the racial work done in that state.
Notes: The film is black and white and does not have sound; there is a script. The film has been transferred to videotape; see videotape #14.

Month/Day/Year: January 9, 1961
Segment Description: Special Assignment. Part 1 of a 5-part series on North Town. The segment shows the different levels of development of Milwaukee's North Town. George Pazik, Wesley Scott, and Alderwoman Vel Phillips are interviewed.
Notes: The film is black and white and does have sound; there is a script. The film has been transferred to videotape; see videotape #68.

Month/Day/Year: January 10, 1961
Segment Description: Special Assignment. Part 2 of a 5-part series on North Town. The segment discusses the commercial association's proposal for helping North Town develop, along with comments from Mayor Henry Maier and George Pazik.
Notes: The film is black and white and does have sound; there is a script. The film has been transferred to videotape; see videotape #68.

Month/Day/Year: January 11, 1961
Segment Description: Special Assignment. Part 3 of a 5-part series on North Town. The segment contains an interview with Wesley Scott of the Urban League about housing on the North Side.
Notes: The film is black and white and does have sound; there is a script. The film has been transferred to videotape; see videotape #68.

Month/Day/Year: January 12, 1961
Segment Description: Special Assignment. Part 4 of a 5-part series on North Town. Vel Phillips and George Pazik talk about neighborhood and business development on Milwaukee's North Side.
Notes: The film is black and white and does have sound; there is a script. The film has been transferred to videotape; see videotape #68.

Month/Day/Year: January 13, 1961
Segment Description: Special Assignment. Part 5 of a 5-part series on North Town. The segment contains interviews with Mayor Henry Maier, Vel Phillips, and George Pazik regarding public housing.
Notes: The film is black and white and does have sound; there is a script. The film has been transferred to videotape; see videotape #68.

Month/Day/Year: May 8, 1963
Segment Description: Special Assignment. Part 1 of a 3-part series. Fundraising for the new YMCA building fund begins. Interior and exterior footage of the current YMCA. Capt. Carl Hamm of the Youth Aid Bureau stresses the need and importance of the new YMCA for the negro population on the North Side.
Notes: The film is black and white and does have sound; there is a script.

Month/Day/Year: May 9, 1963
Segment Description: Special Assignment. Part 2 of a 3-part series. The North Shore YMCA facility on N. Oakland Ave. is incapable of meeting the needs of the neighborhood. Interior and exterior footage of the small house/yard used as the YMCA and the surrounding neighborhood.
Notes: The film is black and white and does not have sound; there is a script.

Month/Day/Year: May 10, 1963
Segment Description: Special Assignment. Part 3 of a 3-part series. The segment looks at the North Side YMCA facility and its limited space. Capt. Hamm talks about overcrowding at the facility due to an increased population. Interior views of the facility and its overcrowding problems. Footage of a teen dance.
Notes: The film is black and white and does have sound; there is a script.

Month/Day/Year: August 28, 1963
Segment Description: Special Assignment. Elner McCreaty, a member of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), is interviewed during a sit-in at the county courthouse. She talks about starting a CORE group in Milwaukee, comments made by Fred Lins, and the state of racial equality in Milwaukee.
Notes: The film is black and white and does have sound; there is a script. The film has been transferred to videotape; see videotape #68.

Month/Day/Year: September 4, 1963
Segment Description: Special Assignment. Wesley Scott, director of the Milwaukee Urban League, talks about the increasing role of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in Milwaukee and the new leadership in the Civil Rights movement.
Notes: The film is black and white and does have sound; there is a script. The film has been transferred to videotape; see videotape #68.

Month/Day/Year: November 1, 1965
Segment Number: 3
Segment Description: Daily Footage. John Lewis of The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) talks about the continuing racial strife in the deep South. He says the South is still a place of terror and violence. Lewis is in Milwaukee for a fundraiser and speech at UW--Milwaukee.
Notes: The film is black and white and does have sound. The film has been transferred to videotape; see videotape #26.

Month/Day/Year: November 1, 1965
Segment Number: 5
Segment Description: Daily Footage. John Lewis says The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and other Civil Rights organizations are not supported by or influenced by the Communist Party.
Notes: The film is black and white and does have sound. The film has been transferred to videotape; see videotape #26.

Month/Day/Year: November 2, 1965
Segment Number: 1
Segment Description: Daily Footage. John Lewis of The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) refutes the charge that SNCC has ever received money from Communist China. He says the charge is ridiculous. Lewis says SNCC will continue to concentrate its efforts in the deep South.
Notes: The film is black and white and does have sound. The film has been transferred to videotape; see videotape #26.

Month/Day/Year: November 20, 1965
Segment Number: 5
Segment Description: Daily Footage. Wesley Scott, the director of the Milwaukee Urban League, talks about the changing role of the League, how it used to serve Milwaukee's African American community, and how it helps the community today.
Notes: The film is black and white and does have sound. The film has been transferred to videotape; see videotape #27.

Month/Day/Year: November 20, 1965
Segment Number: 9
Segment Description: Daily Footage. Wesley Scott, of the Milwaukee Urban League, tells how the League has changed over the past 50 years. He says the growth of the African American community in Milwaukee and the increased interest in the Civil Rights movement has affected its programs.
Notes: The film is black and white and does have sound. The film has been transferred to videotape; see videotape #27.

Month/Day/Year: January 2, 1967
Segment Number: 2
Segment Description: Daily Footage. People view "Song of the Towers," a painting done by Aaron Douglas, in the governor's mansion. Footage of the painting and of Douglas talking about it. Douglas is a renowned African American painter and is the founder of the Art Department at Fisk University.
Notes: The film is black and white and does not have sound.

Month/Day/Year: August 15, 1967
Segment Description: Special Assignment. Part 1 of a 4-part series. Pat Cyrus, supervisor of the Milwaukee County Welfare Agency's adoption unit, discusses the reasons why the adoption rate for African American children is so low.
Notes: The film is color and does have sound; there is a script.

Month/Day/Year: August 16, 1967
Segment Description: Special Assignment. Part 2 of a 4-part series. Dr. William Mack, a Milwaukee pediatrician, explains some of the misconceptions and myths about adopting an African American child.
Notes: The film is color and does have sound; there is a script.

Month/Day/Year: August 17, 1967
Segment Description: Special Assignment. Part 3 of a 4-part series. Reverend E. B. Phillips, leader of the Greater Galilee Baptist Church, explains why he thinks Negro ministers and community leaders can do more for African American children waiting to be adopted.
Notes: The film is color and does have sound; there is a script.

Month/Day/Year: August 18, 1967
Segment Description: Special Assignment. Part 4 of a 4-part series. Mr. and Mrs. Doffi Conwell and their family talk about adopting a baby girl, Cherylitta, and how it has affected the family.
Notes: The film is color and does have sound; there is a script.

Month/Day/Year: July 14, 1969
Segment Number: 1, 8 & 9
Segment Description: Daily Footage. Daily Footage. Members of United Black Enterprises, a group seeking to buy the Blatz Brewery, hold a press conference. Harold B. Jackson and Theodore Mack discuss the financial pledges of support they have received. They also discuss the acquisition of assets and say they expect employees to be committed spiritually.
Notes: The film is color and does have sound.

Month/Day/Year: July 23, 1969
Segment Number: 2 & 5
Segment Description: Daily Footage. Daily Footage. Members of United Black Enterprises hold a press conference. They are disappointed that a judge has denied their request for an extension to develop a new financial plan for the acquisition of the Blatz Brewery.
Notes: The film is color and does have sound.

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