Black journalists, then & now [manuscript], 1986-1987.

Payne, Ethel L., 1911-1991

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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 ...

McFarlane, Bryan,

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Bryan McFarlane is a Jamaican-born artist living in the United States. He graduated from Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts with distinction in 1976 and received his Master's degree in 1983 from Massachusetts College of Art. He has traveled as a visiting artist to international institutions throughout the world From the description of Black journalists, then & now [manuscript], 1986-1987. (Oregon Historical Society Research Library). Wo...

Lacy, Sam, 1903-

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Wells-Barnett, Ida B., 1862-1931

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Ida B. Wells (b. July 16, 1862, Holly Springs, MS - d. March 25, 1931, Chicago, IL) was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi in 1862, six months before the Emancipation Proclamation granted freedom to her slave parents. Following the death of both her parents of yellow fever in 1878, Ida, at age 16, began teaching in a one-room schoolhouse in rural Mississippi. Some time between 1882 and 1883 Wells moved to Memphis, Tennessee, to teach in city schools. She was dismissed, in 1891, for h...

Trotter, William Monroe, 1872-1934

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Goode, Mal, 1908-1995

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Parks, Gordon, 1912-2006

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A versatile and prolific artist, Gordon Parks, Sr., warrants his status as a cultural icon. The poet, novelist, film director, and preeminent documentary and fashion photographer was born on November 30, 1912, in Fort Scott, Kansas, the youngest of fifteen children. Parks saw no reason to stay in Kansas after the death of his mother and moved to St. Paul, Minnesota, at age sixteen to live with his sister. After a disagreement with his brother-in-law, Parks soon found himself homeless, supporting...

Fortune, Timothy Thomas, 1856-1928

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T. Thomas Fortune was the foremost African-American journalist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He served as an editor, publisher, writer, orator and civil rights leader, using his position at a series of black newspapers in New York City as the leading spokesman and defender of the rights of African Americans in both the South and the North. Fortune's journalism career began in Florida, he moved to New York in 1881, and founded the "New York Freeman...

Russwurm, John Brown, 1799-1851

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Born in Jamaica to white merchant father and unknown black slave; in 1812 father and son moved to Portland, Me. Father remarried and John Russwurm attended Hebron Academy and Bowdoin College (first black man to graduate) ; after graduation in 1826 moved to New York City where became co-editor and publisher of Freedom's Journal; in 1829 moved to Liberia and worked as secretary for American Colonization Society, then as editor of Liberia Herald. Later became superintendent of education and the fir...

Raspberry, William

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Newspaper columnist William Raspberry is a highly regarded journalist whose twice-weekly columns forThe Washington Postare syndicated around the country. Born on October 12, 1935, in Okolona, Mississippi, Raspberry has won the respect and admiration of his media peers for his opinions and reporting.Raspberry earned a B.S. degree from Indiana Central College in 1958, and from 1960 to 1962 worked in Washington, D.C., as a public information officer with the U.S. Army. After finishing his military ...

Hunter-Gault, Charlayne

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Award-winning journalist, author, and school desegregation pioneer Charlayne Hunter-Gault was born on February 27, 1942, in Due West, South Carolina, to Charles and Althea Hunter. Because her father, a chaplain in the United States Army, was often re-assigned, Hunter-Gault and her siblings attended schools in California, Indiana, Ohio, Georgia and Alaska. Hunter-Gault graduated third in her class from Atlanta's Henry McNeal Turner High School in 1960. Backed by a group of black businessmen and a...

Tinsley, Clarice, 1953-

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Broadcast journalist Clarice Tinsley was born on December 31, 1953 in Detroit, Michigan to Janet and Clarence Tinsley. She attended Beaubien Junior High School and Samuel C. Mumford High School. Tinsley graduated from Wayne State University with her B.A. degree in radio, television and film.From 1975 to 1978, Tinsley worked for WITI-TV in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she started as a general assignment reporter, and later became co-anchor of the weekday noon news as well as producer and co-host o...

Maynard, Robert C.

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