This project is aimed at bringing to life the history of St. Louis and the region through the unique lens of public policy. The purpose of this project is to provide researchers, students, and the general public with a greater understanding of our region’s history, development and missed opportunities. I cannot be held responsible if this project depresses you–my hope would be that it instead inspires you to create/shape better, more inclusive and empathetic public policy. These documents...
Topic: st. louis county, digiproject
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 9/23/1921
Topics: black newspapers, Republican Party Ticket, Lincoln Party, Birth of A Nation, English Labor Party,...
St. Louis Argus Newspaper, Issue dated 8/21/1925
Topic: black newspaper
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 7/6/1917 East St. Louis Race Riot issue (Pt1)
Topics: race riot, naacp, Tom Turpin, chicago, Ferdenand L. Barnett, refugees, William H. Hoffman, east st....
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 9/16/1921 Later in paper issue is a moderately sized article regarding the status of "negro life in St. Louis city"
Topics: black newspaper, Garvey Movement, Tuskegee Institute, Pan African Conference, Chicago News, John...
Volume 2 Number 2
Topics: Klotzer, Focus Midwest
Volume 6 Number 3
Topics: Klotzer, Focus Midwest
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 6/16/1916 Needs some cleanup/brightness/contrast/blur
Topics: W. T. Scott, ymca, ywca, Democratic Convention, william jennings bryan, Pythian Monitor, St. Louis...
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 6/22/1917
Topics: ww1, great war, negro soldiers, colored soldiers, war department, ymca, ywca, poro college,...
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated 2/18/1921 Issue has some issues relating to clarity of print due to the poor quality of scanning material. I have done my best to make reading as easy as possible.
Topics: Walthall M. Moore, education, Calvin Coolidge, lynch mobs, William H. Dorsey, disenfranchisement,...
From the City Data Collection Addenda at the State Historical Society of Missouri- St. Louis
Topics: St. Louis, digiproject, urban renewal, st. louis
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 11/18/1921
Topics: black newspaper, Negro on Democratic Ticket, Jim Crowe, Colored War Veterans, Lily Whitism,...
This work, published in part by the Landmarks Association in 1969, was found in the St. Louis Local History Collection at the State Historical Society of Missouri-St. Louis
Topics: St. Louis, digiproject, francis parkman, Tennessee williams
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 6/15/1917 Interesting issue, highlights outrage in African American community over being forced into Army by draft, whereas whites were incorporated by volunteerism.
Topics: segregation, ww1, fort des moines, negro soldiers, Tuskegee institute, negro business league,...
Volume 1 No. 6
Topics: Klotzer, Focus Midwest
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 3/19/1920
Topics: black newspaper, Election, Registration Day, Great Migration, Civil Liberties League, East St....
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 1/30/1920
Topics: black newspaper, naacp, ymca, ywca, urban league, Citizens League, mass meeting, Lincoln League,...
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 5/25/1917
Topics: race riot, segregation, jim crow, southern, lynch mob, mob law, ymca, ywca, poro college, wheatley...
St. Louis Argus Newspaper, Issue dated 7/24/1925
Topic: black newspaper
Volume 9 Number 1
Topics: Klotzer, Focus Midwest
Volume 2 Number 6
Topics: Klotzer, Focus Midwest
The following was produced by the CDA for the city of St. Louis, illustrating program progress and accounts balances for the city's CDBG program in the year 1981.
Topics: St. Louis, Community Development, Block Grants
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 4/15/1921
Topics: black newspaper, segregation, lynching, klu klux klan, daughters of the confederacy, president...
Volume 6 Number 4
Topics: Klotzer, Focus Midwest
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 7/1/1921
Topics: black newspapers, mob violence, race war, Klu Klux Klan, urban league, naacp, ymca, ywca,...
Volume 14 Number 87
Topics: Klotzer, Focus Midwest
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 9/8/1916
Topics: northern migration, negro laborers, Commonwealth Mercantile, coliseum, negro business league, ymca,...
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated January 1, 1965
Topics: black newspaper, st louis argus
Volume 1 No. 2
Topics: Klotzer, FOCUS Midwest
A short but informative history of the city of Creve Coeur & surrounding cities, published in 1968 by he Citizens' Historical Committee.
Topics: St. Louis, digiproject, History, St. Louis County
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 12/24/1915
Topics: ymca fundraising campaign, ymca, ywca, george l. vaughn, homer g. phillips, segregation,...
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 4/19/1918
Topics: black newspaper, colored soldiers, World War One, Great War, Ymca, Ywca, Naacp, St. Louis Clarion,...
From the State Historical Society of Missouri --St. Louis office. St. Louis Local History Collection.
Topic: St. Louis, digiproject
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 4/18/1917
Topics: ywca, ymca, poro college, fundraising, Birth of a Nation, Race baiting, anti-movies bill, Friedman...
The following is a small booklet published by Landmarks on the history, and future plans for redeveloping Laclede's Landing. This book was digitized as part of an on-going project undertaken by the State Historical Society of Missouri-St. Louis. You can find this book and many similar items relating to the city of St. Louis and its surrounding reaches at our office in the Thomas Jefferson Library at the University of Missouri St. Louis.
Topic: St. Louis, digiproject
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 4/8/1921 Some pages are difficult to read, I have done my best to highlight/shade/brighten areas.
Topics: mayor kiel, reelection, peonage, georgia slavery, equal rights bill, George E. Stevens, Walthall...
St. Louis Argus Newspaper, Issue dated 12/25/1925
Topic: black newspaper
Volume 2 No. 2
Topics: Klotzer, Focus Midwest
Volume 2 Number 2
Topics: Klotzer, FOCUS Midwest
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated 8/31/1917
Topics: colored soldiers, world war 1, military draft, Leroy Bundy, segregation, pythian hall, Roscoe...
Focus Midwest Volume 7 No. 45-48 Note two issues are missing due to poor quality of scan/scanning material. If you absolutely must get hold of these issues contact me at openarchivestl@gmail.com and we can work out an arrangement.
Topics: Klotzer, Focus Midwest
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 4/22/1921
Topics: governor hyde, lincoln university, naacp, anti-lynching law, peonage, orphans home, poro college,...
Volume 3 Number 2
Topics: Klotzer, Focus Midwest
Focus Midwest, Volume 9 Number 61
Topics: Klotzer, Focus Midwest
St. Louis Argus Newspaper, Issue dated 6/25/1965. Part II in the Melvin Cravens Saga
Topic: St. Louis
Volume 10 Number 2
Topics: Klotzer, Focus Midwest
Volume 10 Number 3
Topics: Klotzer, Focus Midwest
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 3/29/1918 Significant Article regarding the Injunction placed upon the St. Louis Segregation Law Also features a great pictorial section highlighting the Masons
Topics: black newspaper, Segregation Ordinance, Antioch Baptist Church, L.C. Dyer, Judge Dyer, injunction...
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 11/14/1919
Topics: black newspaper, Hospital No. 2, Pullman Porters, Wheatley Branch, Ymca, Ywca, naacp, Armistice,...
Volume 9 Number 3
Topics: Klotzer, Focus Midwest
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 6/23/1916
Topics: madame c.j. walker, simmons school, Bishop Phillips, segregation, lynchings, prejudice,...
The St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 3/26/1915
Topics: charles turpin, Madame Lyda Slaughter Wilson, Payton Foster, Dreamland, Helen Eugenia Hagan,...
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated 9/28/1917
Topics: military draft, discrimination, commonwealth fellowship club, equal rights league, milton fields,...
Volume 1 No. 3
Topics: Klotzer, FOCUS Midwest
The following is a preliminary plan produced by the St. Louis Community Development Agency in 1976 for the revitalization of the Tandy neighborhood.
Topics: St. Louis, digiproject, Tandy
Volume 14 Number 2
Topics: Klotzer, Focus Midwest
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 10/14/1921 Large article/expose in the second half of this issue condemning the St. Louis City Board of Alderman for failing to pass an anti-Klu Klux Klan statement.
Topics: black newspaper, Globe Democrat, St. Louis Cardinals, Negro league baseball, St. Louis Post...
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 10/28/1921 Interesting Cover Page story discussing comments made by President Harding regarding racial equality, limits his words to "political equality"
Topics: black newspapers, President Harding, tarred and feathered, klu klux klan, Roosevelt, Colored...
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated 12/29/1917
Topics: minnie williams, murder, ymca, ywca, woodmen, William A. Quayle, J.E. Mitchell, Annie Malone, Poro...
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 4/14/1916
Topics: race loyalty, buy negro only, Scullin Steel, National Negro Press Association, City Federation of...
Volume 3 Number 5
Topics: Klotzer, Focus Midwest
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 10/21/1921
Topics: black newspaper, Klu Klux Klan, New York Mayoral Declaration, Knights of Pythian, Victor Miller,...
St. Louis Argus Newspaper, Issue dated 9/29/1922
Topic: black newspapers
Volume 5 Number 5
Topics: Klotzer, Focus Midwest
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 1/7/1916
Topics: anti-segregation, segregation ordinance, Sid Perrin, katie boswell, emancipation proclamation,...
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Topic: St. Louis, digiproject
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 12/23/1921
Topics: black newspaper, Christmas Edition, Second World Colored Congress, B.F. Bowles, YMCA, YWCA, Pine...
Volume 8 No. 51- Poverty
Topics: Klotzer, Focus Midwest
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 10/17/1919
Topics: black newspapers, socialist, Curtis Diamonds, Anti-Lynching Delegation, Poro College, YMCA, YWCA
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 12/17/1915
Topics: segregation law, John W. Gilbert, ymca, ywca, national baptist convention, wayne e. wheeling,...
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 2/2/1917 Key Homer G. Phillips article on lower right corner of page 1, obscured due to poor quality scan, rescan and upload at a later date (10/19/12)
Topics: negro migration, Kinloch, alton, meacham park, Rev. J.H. Crooks, pullman porter, utopia hotel,...
Focus Midwest Volume 12 number 75
Topics: Klotzer, Focus Midwest
St. Louis Argus newspaper, issue dated: 7/8/1921 Issue Headline; Governor Hyde Comes out in Support of Anti-Lynching Law
Topics: black newspapers, Governor Hyde, YWCA Conference, Carnegie Hero Award, Naacp, William Howard Taft,...
Saint Louis Development Program, City Plan Commission April 1971
Topics: St. Louis, digiproject, Housing, Urban Renewal
Volume 11 Number 5
Topics: Klotzer, Focus Midwest
