The Will Rogers boycott
Filed under: 1934, As We See It, Columns Tagged: "darkies", 1934, african american history, black history, ebenezer ray, elaine ray, genealogy, harlem, journalism, new york, the new york age, Will Rogers
View ArticleLetter to the editor on Will Rogers and Mr. Ray
Apparently, my father’s columns on the Will Rogers affair – Rogers referred to black people as “darkies,” an offense that resulted in some community members calling for a boycott of Gulf gas stations –...
View Article‘We have come with no selfish purpose’
So “we’ve” gotten off the subject of Will Rogers and his reference to “darkies,” and now back to the “tiff” between American born and immigrant blacks. This column, published April 7, 1934, takes a...
View Article‘Lady Lorraine': Mystery solved
In a column my father published Feb. 10, 1934, he devotes the last paragraph to a young girl he refers to as “Lady Lorraine.” In honor of her ninth birthday, Ebenezer waxed on about her “ladylike...
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