The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Simeon Booker

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Simeon Booker

8/1/2007

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2007.223

Magazine reporter and newspaper reporter Simeon Booker (1918 - 2017 ) worked for Johnson Publishing Company for fifty-three years, covering the Emmitt Till Murder and Trial, the Freedom Rides and the events of the Civil Rights Movement. Booker was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 8/1/2007, in Washington, D.C.. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 1; Total Tapes: 5; Total Run Time: 02h 08m 58s

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Booker, Simeon, 1918-

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Magazine and newspaper reporter Simeon Saunders Booker, Jr. was born on August 27, 1918, in Baltimore, Maryland to Roberta Waring and Simeon Saunders Booker, Sr., a YMCA director and minister. After his family moved to Youngstown, Ohio, Booker became interested in journalism through a family friend, Carl Murphy, the owner and operator of Baltimore'sThe Afro American Newspapers. In 1942, after receiving his B.A. degree in English from Virginia Union University in Richmond, Booker took a job at th...