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The St. Luke Herald Newspaper Vol. XXI, No.37

1922-12-30

Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site, National Park Service

Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site, National Park Service
Richmond, VA, United States

Walker established the "St. Luke Herald" as "a trumpet to sound the orders, so that the St. Luke upon the mountain top and the St. Luke living by the sea, can hear the same order, keep step to the same music, march in union to the same command, although miles intervene."
The weekly paper ran its first issue on March 29, 1902 and published continuously until August 1931 when Depression-era shortages forced the IOSL to reduce the paper to a monthly: "The St. Luke Fraternal Bulletin."
In addition to fraternal news, the "St. Luke Herald" provided scathing civil rights editorials and in 1904 helped launch a boycott of Richmond's segregated streetcar system.
This particular issue from 1922 features article describing the Council of Colored Women's Club Musical, with Mrs. Maggie Walker President Miss Eugertha B. Johnson, Chairman is noted on the top righthand side of the paper.
For more information see: http://www.nps.gov/mawa/learn/historyculture/st-luke-herald.htm

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Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site, National Park Service

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