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Did you know... that African-American journalist Erna P. Harris(pictured) was called a "fearless critic" of the
internment of Japanese Americans by the US government during World War II?
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Comment: Could run for February's Black History Month or in the special holding area for March 8th. (I don't have a photo yet, but GRuban is working on it.)
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SusunW,
Ipigott, and
GRuban: all looks good with this. Article is new and above the necessary size, sourcing is fine, running Earwig's highlights no problems and QPQ has been done. Hookwise, I prefer ALT0 personally. Anyways, I'll wait for you to add the image before closing this. Note to closer: consider keeping for either Black History Month or March 8.Schminnte (
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contribs)02:36, 5 February 2023 (UTC)reply
PPuThanks for looking at it Schminnte. I think the photo is too blurry to use for the front page, so let's just run it without.
SusunW (
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04:52, 5 February 2023 (UTC)reply
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All are relevant and public domain. Positioning is fine. A shame that the infobox pic isn't a bit clearer, but given the limitations of working with only free or fair use images, at least there are pictures to enhance the article.
Captions: I couldn't see a source for her signature beret? (Edwards, Eleanor (June 5, 1978b) seems to fit the bill.) Is it worth adding a note about Harris's location in the Sunflower staff pic (or maybe including a version of the info from the ALT text about her being the only Black woman on the Sunflower staff?
I cannot believe I left out that little jewel, but I've added it and her location (didn't want to overdo stating she was the only Black).
SusunW (
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22:32, 17 April 2023 (UTC)reply
Good alt text. Should there be a comma after the only Black woman in the Sunflower staff ALT text?
I reviewed the matches above 10% found using Earwig's Copyvio Detector. No issues. A couple of phrases are repeated from the Discover Nikkei and OAC sources, but only ones which are OK per
WP:LIMITED, e.g. born on June 29, 1908, in Kingfisher, Oklahoma, the internment of Japanese Americans
No issues encountered from the sources I reviewed.
Early life and education
Her father was a postman and pacifist. Optionally, this could be reworded as the current form sort of gives the two roles an equivalence.
Although he did not own a gun, he routinely opposed the actions of the local Ku Klux Klan - I haven't seen the Intondi source, but this formulation looks slightly odd to me, as I wouldn't expect opposition to the KKK to require a gun. Is there more context to this in the Intondi source?
Not in Intondi, but I mistakenly thought the US gun culture would be "common knowledge". Oklahoma, "the last frontier" and home of the "wild west" (although it culturally is also part of
"the south") is high on that list. (Whenever I travel and am asked where I am "from" I am always asked if I ever saw a cowboy and if people really walk around wearing six-shooters. The answer is yes to cowboy, it's a real job, and "no" to six-shooters.) She was in school during the
Tulsa race massacre and armed resistance was common. If mobs of people are trying to kill you, so the rationale goes, you'd better have a gun and a bigger mob. (Of course since the KKK had members on the police forces and legislatures, violence against violence wasn't likely to stop anything.)
[1] Edwards 1978b says he was probably the only man in Kingfisher who didn't have a gun at home. (hmmm, did he have one at work?) Changed it to read Unlike most men in his community, he did not own a gun, but he routinely opposed the actions of the local
Ku Klux Klan. Better?
SusunW (
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23:22, 17 April 2023 (UTC)reply
Spot check on the only Black student in the journalism department - no issues.
Career
and the paper folded Optionally: reword, as this has a literal meaning as well as the intended one.
Spot check on She wrote feature articles and had a syndicated column, "Reflections in a Crackt Mirror" that was distributed to other markets - not sure that this is really supported by the sources. There's a Detroit Tribune source that mentions "for LATF", but I'm not sure what that "F" indicates.
Spot check on In 1952, she moved to Berkeley where she operated a duplication and printing shop until her retirement - no issues.
Activism
To end demonstrations, President Harry S. Truman, signed Executive Order 9981 in June 1948 to integrate the United States Armed Forces. - From the one page of the source I can see, it's hard to tell whether this is really a fair statement. It's consistent with the source, so I'm not saying is has to be changed, but I wonder if there was more to this than just the prevention of demonstrations.
Of course there was more to it. It was totally political. Truman assumed the presidency when FDR died and ran for his own elected term in 1948. He was not expected to win and made
campaign promises to deal with racial inequalities. Continuing pressure, from media, demonstrations, meetings by heads of organizations like the NAACP and the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters with Congress, etc. put a lot of pressure on him to keep his promises.
[2][3]. I've changed the text. Better?
SusunW (
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16:59, 18 April 2023 (UTC)reply
She continued her activism for human rights regardless of whether her positions were popular - as there's only Dellums's statement to the House of Representatives supporting this, it might be better to attribute this to him.
Spot checks on After her death, the City of Berkeley named the Erna P. Harris Court, a public housing project located at 1330 University Avenue, in her honor - no issues.
Sources
FamilySearch is listed as "Generally unreliable" at
WP:RSP. However, it also states there that the use of some resources there may be OK. As I dont have a subscription, please could you outline what the "Marriage Record: James E. Harris/Frankie A. Prather" is? (E.g. is it a scan of a register entry?)
It is a digitized copy of the official registry volume 2 page 320 of the marriage license application, showing the name, age, race, birth place, and residence of groom and bride, official's certification, followed by the proof that the marriage took place.
SusunW (
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16:59, 18 April 2023 (UTC)reply
"Coop Dedication" should be "Co-op Dedication". Otherwise, all OK with the spot check on that source.
MOS:LEAD states that "As a general rule of thumb, a lead section should contain no more than four well-composed paragraphs". Having six paragraphs in the lead is OK, but perhaps see if any could be combined.
Sorry, the issue of submitting it to DYK before GA review. Drive by editors using mobile devices seem to prefer short paragraphs and often break refs when moving text around. I thought I got them all back together, but missed this.
SusunW (
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16:59, 18 April 2023 (UTC)reply
Thanks
BennyOnTheLoose. I truly enjoyed learning about her. I very much appreciate your collaboration in improving the article. I think I have addressed everything, but please let me know if anything is unclear or needs more work. Always a pleasure to work with you.
SusunW (
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16:59, 18 April 2023 (UTC)reply
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