Jet V9 #3 Nov 24 1955 Louis Armstrong Belafonte Poitier

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Jet V9 #3 Nov 24 1955 Louis Armstrong Harry Belafonte Sidney Poitier This is a magazine about Black culture, news, and entertainment from 1955. The categories in the table of contents are: Business, Census, Crime, Education, Entertainment, Foreign, Journalism, Labor, Medicine, Mr & Mrs, National, Radio-TV Guide, Religion, Society World, Sports, Ticker Tape, Weekly Almanac, Week's Best Photos, and Words of the Week. Jet is enlightening, informative, and entertaining. Good journalism and photography. It offers a look at life in America as it was at the time from a Black perspective. This is a great weekly summary of history as it was happening on a variety of topics. Two feature articles are: Hoe The Till Case Changed Five Lives (about the brutal murder of a 14 year-old in Mississippi) and TV's New Policy Toward Negroes. Also of interest is coverage of school desegregation efforts in multiple locales. Pics include cover Hilda Simms and Sidney Poitier, center Sonja Dunson, Mease Booker, Billie Holiday, Harry Belafonte, actor Ronald Reagan, Sammy Davis Jr, Eddie Cantor, Jack Benny, George Burns, Pearl Bailey, Art Linkletter, Tommy (Dr Jives) Smalls, Joe Louis, Louis Armstrong, Adam Clayton Powell, and more. Measures approximately 4 1/8" x 5 7/8", with 68 pages including covers. Please see pictures for table of contents, front and read more