Payne 1911-1991

Dates:
Birth 1911
Death 1991
Birth 1911-08-14
Death 1991-05-28

Biographical notes:

Journalist.

From the description of Reminiscences of Ethel Payne: oral history, 1987. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122513915

Journalist and social activist. Born 1911; died 1991.

From the description of Ethel L. Payne papers, 1857-1991 (bulk 1973-1991). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71072632

Biographical Note

1911, Aug. 14 Born, Chicago, Ill. 1928 circa 1931 Attended Crane Junior College, Chicago, Ill. and Garrett Institute, Evanston, Ill. 1939 1947 Library assistant, Chicago Public Library, Chicago, Ill. 1940 1942 Attended Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University, Chicago, Ill. 1948 1951 Director, United States Army service club, quartermaster depot, Tokyo, Japan 1951 1978 Associate editor and reporter, Sengstacke Newspapers 1953 1973 Washington correspondent, Sengstacke Newspapers 1955 Covered Asian-African Conference, Bandung, Indonesia 1957 Accompanied Vice President Richard Nixon to independence ceremonies, Accra, Ghana 1957 1989 Wrote syndicated columns "So This Is Washington," "From Where I Sit," and "Behind the Scenes" 1966 1967 Reported on Afro-American soldiers in Vietnam 1969 Covered civil war in Nigeria 1972 1982 Commentator, "Spectrum," CBS Radio Network 1976 Accompanied Secretary of State Henry Kissinger tour of Africa 1979 Published America's Black Colleges: Roots, Rewards, Renewals. Washington, D.C.: Delta Sigma Theta 1981 Writer-in-residence, Jackson State University, Jackson, Miss. 1982 Visited and reported on refugee camps in Somalia, Sudan, Zambia, and Zimbawe for AfriCare 1982 1983 Visiting professor, Ida B. Wells Distinguished Journalism Chair, Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn. 1985 1991 Board of directors, Africare 1991, May 28 Died, Washington, D.C.

From the guide to the Ethel L. Payne Papers, 1857-1991, (bulk 1973-1991), (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)

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Subjects:

  • African American journalists
  • African American newspapers
  • African Americans
  • African Americans in the newspaper industry
  • African American women
  • African American women journalists
  • Broadcast journalism
  • Congresses and conventions
  • Congresses and conventions
  • Foreign correspondents
  • Foreign correspondents
  • Foreign correspondents
  • Journalism
  • Journalism
  • Journalists
  • Mass media and race relations
  • Newspapers
  • Segregation and the press
  • Social problems
  • Social problems
  • Social problems
  • Vietnam War, 1961-1975
  • Women in journalism
  • Women journalists
  • Congresses and conventions
  • Foreign correspondents
  • Foreign correspondents
  • Journalism
  • Social problems
  • Social problems

Occupations:

  • Journalists
  • Social Activist

Places:

  • Illinois--Chicago (as recorded)
  • Indonesia--Bandung (as recorded)
  • Africa, Southern (as recorded)
  • Washington (D.C.) (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • Developing countries (as recorded)

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