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OLD JET MAGAZINES FROM 1950
Click on the years at the bottom and see the history. You can read the magazine in its entirety
Here’s something special, especially for those of us
Who have been around for a while.
A keeper that may bring back memories or instruct.
This is Black American History at its best!!!
This entry contains copies of the Jet Magazine
going all the way back to 1950.
Not only do you get the covers of all the issues of Jet Magazine, but you can actually read the issues. Good tool for your children and grandchildren. Please share… Browse all issues
1950 1960 1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 ENJOY!!!
This entry has helped many readers sell their JET magazines.
When ‘Jet’ Mattered
BY BRENT STAPLES MAY 9, 2014 3:51 PM May 9, 2014 3:51 pm
- cease print publication and move to the Web. Jet was profoundly important at a time when the white press denied the existence of the black elites and generally found black people of interest only if they committed crimes. The magazine helped to spark the modern civil rights movement when it published gruesome photographs of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black Chicagoan who was kidnapped, mutilated and brutally murdered while visiting relatives in Mississippi in 1955.
It also helped to change advertising, inducing companies to use African-Americans to sell their products. Along with its sister magazine, Ebony, Jet allowed the black masses to keep track of the otherwise invisible black elites as they traveled abroad, attended football games at historically black colleges and lived glamorous, high-fashion lives. It launched the careers of models and actresses who first appeared to the public in a feature called “Jet Beauty of the Week.” And as its founder John H. Johnson pointed out in his 1989 autobiography, “Succeeding Against the Odds,” it was said that, if a news event did not appear in Jet, it did not happen.
Like similar publications of the era, Jet relied at least implicitly on segregation to keep black subscribers fully engaged. The writing was on the wall when the white press began to show black faces in other than menial positions and when black professionals were able to escape to the suburbs. The demise of Jet in print reflects a social revolution that was already underway when I was sitting in Joseah’s shop in 1959, my third grader’s eyes fixed on The Beauty of The Week.
