Early African American Deaths in the Pittsburgh Courier, Book Fourteen, from January 2, 1937-December 25, 1937

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This book is a compilation of deaths reported from more than thirty states and Canada that were published in the Pittsburgh Courier from January to December 1937. The deaths featured in this book occurred mainly in the Midwest and Southeast.

  • Alabama: Anniston, Athens, Berlin, Bessemer, Birmingham, Castleberry, Florence, Morris and Tuskegee
  • Arkansas: Althemier, Brinkley, Clarendon, Crawfordsville, El Dorado, Fort Smith, Helena, Monticello, North Little Rock, and Pine Bluff
  • Florida: Cottage Hill, Fernandina, Fort Myers, Oviedo, Pensacola, Reddick, Tarpon Springs, and West Palm Beach
  • Louisiana: Abbeville, Baton Rouge, DeQuincy, Franklinton, Madisonville, Mandeville, New Iberia, Shreveport, and Thibodaux
  • Mississippi: Aberdeen, Alligator, Amory, Buloxi, Cleveland, Coahoma, Collins, Columbus, Enterprise, Fayette, Greenville, Grenada, Gulfport, Hattiesburg, Hazlehurst, Indianola, Jackson, Lumberton, McComb, Meridian, Pontotoc, Samrall, Stonewall, Tupelo, Tutweiler, Union, West Point, Winona, and Wiggins
  • North Carolina: Durham, Fayetteville, Gatesville, Greensboro, Hamlet, Pine View, Rocky Mount, Scotland Neck, Stanley, and Tarboro
  • South Carolina: Abbeville, Charleston, Cheraw, Columbia, Conway and Easley
  • Tennessee: Bristol, Jackson, Johnson City, Knoxville, Memphis, Murfreesboro and Nashville
  • Texas: Bryan, Clarksville, Dallas, Huntsville, Littlefield, Lubbock, Lufkin, Mineral Wells, San Angelo, Sherman, Temple and Wichita Falls

Additional deaths appear from California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington, D. C., West Virginia and Wisconsin.  The beginning of the book contains an alphabetical listing of deaths that are featured in the book and concludes with an every name index at the end of the book.

Marlene Garrett Bransom

2014, 8.5x11, Softbound, 208 pages

ISBN: 9781558565814

109-664