1940
“Dispute At Cards Cause of Slaying: Thurston Payne Charged with Killing Everett Scott at Cismont”
Daily Progress, Monday July 15, 1940, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2763451
“Farmington Hunt Club Members Ride in Movie, ‘Virginia’”
Daily Progress, July 22, 1940, page 5
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2763525
See also Virginia (1941) https://youtu.be/Pzze-gkQWjo
“Actress Louise Beavers Tells How She Wanted to Be Doctor”
“Her grandfather, James Monroe, was a slave and was born here in Albemarle County. His father was a member of the household staff of President Monroe and lived and worked at Ash Lawn, which Louise hopes to visit during her stay here.”
(Ms. Beavers was in Charlottesville for filming of Virginia.)
Daily Progress, Friday July 26, 1940, page 1 & page 9
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2763570
EDITORIAL: “Fellow ‘Citizens’”
“700 members of the New Jersey Ku Klux Klan mingling with an equal number of German-American Bund members”
Daily Progress, August 20, 1940, page 4
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2763801
“Census Taker Tells Experience In Helping Make Tabulation Here”
Daily Progress, August 22, 1940, page 11 and page 13
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2763821
“Paramount’s Unit Completing Shots: Picnic Scene is Filmed; Most of Crew Will Leave Tomorrow”
Daily Progress, August 23, 1940, page 2
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2763838
“Census Taker Tells Experience In Helping Make Tabulation Here”
Daily Progress, August 28, 1940, page 2
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2763878
“Ex-Slave Was 100 Years Old Yesterday”
Jim Williams, who worked on the Blue Ridge Tunnel
Daily Progress, Thursday August 29, 1940, page 3
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2763891
1941
“Historical Meet is Well Attended”
Daily Progress, Thursday July 24, 1941, page 3
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2765651
1944
“Week’s News Letter from Home” [Private First Class Walter Solomon]
Daily Progress, Monday October 2, 1944, page 6
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2776516
1946
“Heavy Primary Ballot Expected Here Tomorrow: Democratic Voters Will Nominate Two Council Candidates”
“Mayor Roscoe S. Adams . . . is expected to lead the ticket again tomorrow, with Gus K. Tebell, University of Virginia athletic coach and Dr. B. A. Coles, Negro dentist, battling for the second post.”
Daily Progress, Monday April 1, 1946, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2782551
“Supreme Court Refuses Review of Ballot Ruling”
“The Supreme Court today declined to review lower Federal Court rulings that Negroes are entitled to vote in Democratic primary elections in Georgia.”
Daily Progress, Monday April 1, 1946, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2782551
EDITORIAL: “Tomorrow’s Primary”
“Dr. Coles, to the best of our knowledge, has many of the qualities of a good public official. We know of not one thing that can be said against him. . . . Until the time comes when a Negro can seek office not as a Negro but simply on his merits—and if that time is ever to come it certainly is far in the future—a Negro candidate cannot hope to be successful. . . . Dr. Coles’ candidacy is an interesting experiment but in our judgement a very unwise one.”
Daily Progress, April 1, 1946, page 4
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2782551
“1,023 Votes Cast by Noon in City Council Primary”
Daily Progress, April 2, 1946, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2782562
“Council to Map Works Program: Committee Is Named to Outline Projects”
[water improvement; fire protection pipelines & “recently appointed board of real estate assessors]
Daily Progress, April 2, 1946, page 3
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2782562
Under “Your Right To Say It” column:
“Dr. Coles’ Candidacy” Letter to the editor by T. J. Sellers, Chairman, “Coles For Council Committee”
“. . . It was, therefore, shocking and disappointing to learn from the lead editorial which appeared in The Daily Progress on April 1, that Dr. Coles is not acceptable to you simply because he is a Negro.
“Such a passionate outburst of race prejudice is to be expected from the ignorant and misinformed among us, but it hardly appears reasonable to find it in the columns of any American newspaper that fully comprehends the grave responsibility that the traditional freedom of the press implies. . . .”
Daily Progress, Tuesday April 2, 1946, page 4
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2782562
“Adams, Tebell Win Nomination by Wide Margin”
“Dr. Coles apparently received support from white voters in every ward. . . . Although he was decisively defeated in his race for a Council seat, Dr. Coles can be credited with one accomplishment, that being the establishment of the fact that a Negro can be a candidate in this city on a Democratic primary ticket, despite party rules to the contrary.”
Daily Progress, April 3, 1946, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2782573
“Mayo Says World Today Needs Jeffersonian Faith And Zeal For Democracy”
“. . . you and I can fight for the future that is within us, the future that all men hunger for in the thousand little ways of everyday life, applying a Jeffersonian zeal in every cause that offers even the bare possibility of doing good. Small as they seem, these efforts, collectively, form democracy’s powerful instrument of action.” — Professor Bernard Mayo, University of Virginia
Daily Progress, Saturday April 13, 1946, pages 1 and 7
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2782693
Under “Help Wanted” column:
“COLORED Maid, full time, help with three children, $15 a week. Phone 657-R.”
Daily Progress, Saturday April 13, 1946, page 7
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2782693
1947
“Training School Pupil Is Quiz Contest Winner”
John Key wins 1st place in New Farmers of America oratorical contest.
Daily Progress, Thursday May 15, 1947, page 2
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2786157
“Stars and Bars to Greet Yankee Football Invaders”
(Chet Pierce) “When the Harvard football team sets foot for the first time on rebel soil tomorrow, they’ll see that it’s no use trying to tell a Virginia man that the Confederacy is dead.”
Daily Progress, Friday October 10, 1947, page 3
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2787679
“Cavaliers Hit Harvard: UVa 47-0 Rocks Boston Newsmen with Amazement”
“No wonder they were willing to waive the color line and agreed to the game on being informed that regardless of Dixie traditions, Chet Pierce, a Negro boy, would play in the Harvard line.”
**The Monday October 13 issue is listed in the DP digital archive as Saturday October 11. Page 7 is on page 15 of the digital archive and page 10 is on page 18 of the digital archive.**
Daily Progress, *Monday October 13, 1947, page 7 & 10
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2787692
— Dr. Chester M. Pierce went on to become Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and a Psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital and at MIT. He played a part in the creation of “Sesame Street” and acted as an advisor for the show. In 1970 he published Some Offensive Mechanisms in which he introduced the concept of microaggressions.
1948
“City Public Library is Opened to Negroes; Branch is Closed”
Includes text of Library Board resolution. “Meanwhile, Negroes have been free to use the City Library since Monday. . . . No Negroes had used the City Library up to noon today . . .”
Daily Progress, Wednesday January 28, 1948, pages 1 and 2
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2793084
“Dozen 4th St., Library Card-Holders Transfer”
“. . . about a dozen of the 700 card holders at the Fourth Street branch for Negroes have had their cards re-registered at the Charlottesville Public Library. A copy of a Library Board resolution opening the City Library to Negroes was posted at the Fourth Street branch, closed for about two weeks for lack of heating oil, a week ago today.”
Daily Progress, February 4, 1948, page 5
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2793165
“LOOKING BACK” by Vera Via
Civil War lost gold and Baily vs Flannagan
Daily Progress, Friday October 29, 1948, page 9
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2789000
1949
“Negroes Petition for Golf Rights”
“Charlottesville City Council yesterday afternoon deferred action on a petition signed by 36 Negroes requesting the use of McIntire Municipal golf course at least one day a week. The petition, submitted by Walter H. Jones, Negro, brought to the attention of Council that the nearest golf course for Negroes is located at Washington. The petition also cited the growing interest in golf among Negro residents of the city.”
Daily Progress, Tuesday October 18, 1949, page 1 & page 5
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2794798
