File:Blanche mcsmith.jpg
From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
![File:Blanche mcsmith.jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Blanche_mcsmith.jpg/422px-Blanche_mcsmith.jpg?20230108164120)
Size of this preview: 422 × 600 pixels. Other resolutions: 169 × 240 pixels | 338 × 480 pixels | 540 × 768 pixels | 721 × 1,024 pixels | 1,441 × 2,048 pixels | 3,294 × 4,680 pixels.
Original file (3,294 × 4,680 pixels, file size: 3.88 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
File information
Structured data
Captions
Captions
Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents
Summary
[edit]DescriptionBlanche mcsmith.jpg | Blanche McSmith was outspoken when it came to issues of racial injustice. She grew up in Texas during the height of the Jim Crow era and decided to get as far away from the South as she could. She traveled to California before heading to Alaska in the late 1940s. After facing racial discrimination at the Pagoda, an Anchorage area restaurant, McSmith organized a lawsuit. According to the Anchorage Daily Times, it “was one of the first, if not the first case involving racial discrimination to be tried before a jury in Anchorage.” After the twelve-person jury deliberated, they acquitted the owners and staff of the Pagoda on the grounds that the Black patrons were refused service not due to their race but because they failed to reserve a table in advance. The case led McSmith to become more deeply involved in activism and local politics. She went on to write for Anchorage’s Black newspaper, the Alaska Spotlight, served in the State Legislature as the first Black lawmaker, and helped to establish the Anchorage branch of the NAACP the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). | ||||||||
Date |
circa 1960 date QS:P,+1960-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 |
||||||||
Source | https://www.anchoragemuseum.org/exhibits/black-lives-in-alaska-journey-justice-joy/justice/blanche-louise-preston-mcsmith-c-1960/ | ||||||||
Author | 'McSmith' | ||||||||
Permission (Reusing this file) |
No copyright notice. | ||||||||
Person depicted InfoField | Blanche Smith | ||||||||
License InfoField |
|
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
current | 16:41, 8 January 2023 | ![]() | 3,294 × 4,680 (3.88 MB) | AlaskaGal (talk | contribs) | {{Information |Description= Blanche McSmith was outspoken when it came to issues of racial injustice. She grew up in Texas during the height of the Jim Crow era and decided to get as far away from the South as she could. She traveled to California before heading to Alaska in the late 1940s. After facing racial discrimination at the Pagoda, an Anchorage area restaurant, McSmith organized a lawsuit. According to the Anchorage Daily Times, it “was one of the first, if not the first case involvin... |
You cannot overwrite this file.
File usage on Commons
There are no pages that use this file.
File usage on other wikis
The following other wikis use this file:
- Usage on en.wikipedia.org
- Usage on es.wikipedia.org
- Usage on www.wikidata.org
Structured data
Items portrayed in this file
depicts
image/jpeg
f4287f56079a25101eb15bc399b5f633b6da47fb
4,065,210 byte
4,680 pixel
3,294 pixel
Hidden categories: