Vineyard Gazette
The Bradley Memorial Baptist Church of Oak Bluffs is happy now to be in possession of a new church home where services have been held the past three Sundays.
African American History
Bradley Memorial Church
Vineyard Gazette
The Cottagers Club ended its first active season, well pleased with its donations to the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital auxiliary and the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital as its first charitable ventures.
The Cottagers
Martha's Vineyard Hospital
African American History
Peter D. Bunzel
A near-capacity crowd turned out late Sunday afternoon at the Oak Bluffs Tabernacle to cheer an unprecedented event on the Vineyard - the first Freedom Fund rally to support equal rights for Negroe
Civil rights
Race and social justice
Tabernacle
Famous visitors
Vineyard Gazette
As a young man, Edward W. Brooke wanted to be a doctor. Today, he is the first Negro to win state-wide office in Massachusetts and is the attorney general-elect, writes Ronald A.
African American History
Edward Brooke
Vineyard Gazette
As the result of interest shown at a meeting Monday night, the Island now has a chapter of its own of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.  
African American History
Martha's Vineyard NAACP
Civil rights
Vineyard Gazette
Kivie Kaplan, national president of the N.A.A.C.P., who was recently vacationing in Vineyard Haven, took off on July 29 for a five day trip to New Orleans for the association’s Louisiana summer pro
Martha's Vineyard NAACP
Kivie Kaplan
Vineyard Gazette
Edward W. Brooke of Newton and Oak Bluffs became the first African American ever elected to the United States Senate by a popular vote.
Senators
U.S. Senate
Edward Brooke
Politicians
Dorothy West
We were always stared at. Whenever we went outside the neighborhood that knew us, we were inspected like specimens under glass. My mother prepared us.
African American History
Dorothy West
Oak Bluffs history
Vineyard Gazette
The little white house behind shrubs at the corner of Cooke street and Tilton Way that, for more than three decades, has been a home away from home for household help in Edgartown, no longer will be welcoming the lonely next summer.
African American History
Open Door Club
Richard Reston
His education began in the anthracite regions of Pennsylvania, in small towns like Shepton and Port Carbon.  
African American History
Education
Superintendent of schools
Susan Mutch
There is no end to Lois Mailou Jones’ creative resources.  
African American History
Artists
Lois Mailou Jones
Joseph B. White
A man and woman charged recently with sleeping in Ocean Park, a violation of Oak Bluffs law, came before the Dukes county district court judge Herbert E. Tucker, Jr.
African American History
Edgartown courthouse
Edgartown district court

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