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pioneer American journalist

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Ted Poston: Pioneer American Journalist is the life story of the first African American reporter to spend his career at a mainstream daily. Ted Poston (1906-1974) found his calling in Journalism, first as a columnist for the black weekly Pittsburgh Courier and later as city editor of Harlem's premier black newspaper, the Amsterdam News.

In 1932 he traveled to Russia with Langston Hughes to make a film on American racism, and in 1935 he helped Heywood Broun create the American Newspaper Guild and was fired for unionizing the Amsterdam. The same year, wielding only words and a typewriter, he finally broke the color barrier in journalism by integrating the New York Post.

During World War II Poston became a member of Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Black Cabinet" when he headed the Negro News Desk of the Office of War Information in Washington. After the war, he returned to the Post, and in its heyday under editor James Wechsler and publisher Dorothy Schiff, he provided an insider's viewpoint on segregation and the civil rights movement.

His incisive, usually upbeat, sometimes acerbic reports on everyday racism were eye-openers for the paper's mostly white readership, but often he leavened the bitterness of his stories with humor.

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Language
English
Pages
326

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Ted Poston: pioneer American journalist
1998, University of Georgia Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-304) and index.

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Athens
Genre
Biography.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
070/.92, B
Library of Congress
PN4874.P595 H38 1998

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiii, 326 p. ;
Number of pages
326

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL362884M
Internet Archive
tedpostonpioneer00hauk
ISBN 10
082032020X
LCCN
98023104
OCLC/WorldCat
39085466
Library Thing
2981412
Goodreads
5148472

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