Simmons, Roscoe Conkling, 1881-1951

Roscoe Conkling Simmons was an African-American orator, civic leader, journalist and politician. He was born in 1878 in Greenview, Mississippi, and graduated from Tuskegee Institute in 1899. He served as head of the Colored Division of the the Speakers' Bureau Republican National Committee in 1920, 1924, and 1928. He was an advisor to three American presidents. He worked for the Chicago Defender from 1916 through the mid-1930s, and for the Chicago Tribune from the late 1940's until his death in 1951.

From the description of Papers of Roscoe Conkling Simmons, 1904-1951 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77003190

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