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The Citizen (1960s)
08/10/2009 5:51 PM by John M
In following up at the Library of Virginia on a recent find , I was fortunate to receive a roll of microfiche containing a number of 20th century Richmond newspapers. Included were a number of precursors to our current crop of community blogs, including the mid-1960s The Citizen.
While The Citizen covered stories from around the city, their purely local focus and civic interest shares as much with the community blogs as the more regional Times-Dispatch. It would be great to have the available run of The Citizen digitized and searchable.
I’d love to be able to read the story headlined: Job Ads…
The job ads story struck me because as an archivist at the LVA, I’m working on an exhibit about a local feminist and activist who was instrumental in changing the way the RTD listed their job ads. They used to be segregated into men and women columns!
“Community journalism, a sacred function”
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RE #2 – Off main topic for a sec, but related to your post…
Was looking through some paperwork related to my son the other day when gathering stuff to re-enroll him in RPS, and noticed that on the paternity papers it asked for the father’s education level and occupation, but not the mother’s. Interesting, as if the woman’s education and job is irrelevant.
Gov’t docs from the mid-90’s. It would be interesting to know if this is still the case 14 years later.