African American journalists
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Jesse Lee Albritton Papers
Collection
Identifier: harsh-2010-04
Abstract
Jesse Lee Albritton was a Chicago-based labor organizer and author of regular columns featured throughout the 1940s and 1950s in the Chicago Crusader and Federation News. This collection includes materials related to Jesse Albritton’s work as a journalist, publisher, and public figure. It spans the years 1938-2005; the bulk of the collection consists of a scrapbook, political sketches, newspaper clippings, speeches, correspondence, and records relating to Albritton’s death.
Dates:
1938-1965
Horace R. Cayton Papers
Collection
Identifier: harsh-1983-03
Abstract
Horace Cayton (1903-1970) was a Black sociologist, co-author of Black Metropolis and director of Chicago’s Parkway Community House in the 1940s. His papers consist of correspondence, published and unpublished manuscripts, photographs, subject research files, memorabilia and oral history recordings. In the last years of his life, Cayton conducted research, including interviews, on the life of his friend and noted author, Richard Wright. Housed with Cayton’s...
Dates:
1866-2007
Dewey Roscoe Jones Papers
Collection
Identifier: harsh-2015-02
Abstract
Dewey Roscoe Jones was a Chicago-based journalist for the Chicago Defender. He rose to the role of Managing Editor while writing feature articles, book reviews, and columns. Jones left the Defender in 1932 to work as the Associate Advisor on Negro Affairs in the U.S. Department of the Interior in Washington, D.C. He returned to Chicago in 1938 to serve as the Assistant Director of Hull-House, Jane Addam’s progressive settlement just southwest of the city’s Loop. The collection contains...
Dates:
1905 - 2013