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♲ @: New York Times Runs Very Belated Obituary of Charlotta Bass, Progressive Party Vice-Presidential Nominee in 1952On September 7, the New York Times ran an obituary http://status.hackerposse.com/url/22231 for Charlotta Bass, who was the Progressive Party’s vice-presidential nominee in 1952, and the first African-American woman to be on the ballot …
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@musicman @afrogeek She died 51 years ago.
They're trying to make up for 150 years of racism, so they'll be publishing belated obituaries for a long time.
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not clear from "The New York Times has recently been running belated obituaries for people who did not get a Times obituary when they died, but the newspaper now believes that they should have had such obituaries." that obituaries are limited to race.
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@musicman You’re right. While I’m sure that race and sex were major factors in their decision in that particular case (and many others since the 1800s), they do not specifically mention either factor in their belated obituary series description.
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decided to take a look. An example: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/01/obituaries/karl-heinrich-ulrichs-overlooked.html
At the time, I had been thinking of someone like Louis Lingg.
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