Author: Various Authors
Title: Jet (Magazine). August 28, 1969
Description: Chicago/New York, Johnson Publishing Co, 1969. Wraps. Illustrated wraps. Small digest format. 66 pp. Black and white photos throughout. Front cover photo of Adam Powell. Single issue of this long running journal devoted to African-American news, culture and entertainment. Jet was noted for its documentation of the Civil Rights movement and the murder of Emmett Till. This issue with short pieces of news on the decision to not remove a statue of Medgar Evers from a park in Fayette, MS (decided by his brother, Mayor Charles Evers); the fight of Calvin Reeves in Chicago to get his name cleared after being arrested on frivolous charges by the Chicago PD; the suspension of prison sentences of five Black youths in North Carolina, who were convicted of burning a KKK hall; news on the SCLC, etc. Politics, sports and fashion also included. GOOD condition. Mailing label on the front cover. General toning, soiling, scuffing and wrinkling. Some scuffing and curling along the extremities. Good .

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