Welcome to the weekend POU! The final person featured in our series on Investigative Journalists, was not actually a journalist. However, through his own initiative, he became an investigator and managed to provide us with a wealth of history that we may never have known about African Americans in the 19th and early 20th Centuries. His desire to dispel the myths of white … [Read more...] about Saturday Open Thread: Incredible Investigative Journalists of Color
Investigative Journalists
Friday Open Thread: Incredible Investigative Journalists of Color
Happy Friday POU! Today we feature another head of the NAACP that risked his life to expose working conditions in 1930s Mississippi. "Images of what I'd seen in Mississippi - the grim little river towns, rain-soaked levees, suspicious white faces, poverty-beaten Negroes...stayed fresh in my mind for a long time." Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. … [Read more...] about Friday Open Thread: Incredible Investigative Journalists of Color
Thursday Open Thread: Incredible Investigative Journalists of Color
Good Morning Pou! Today's featured journalist is "The First Lady of the Black Press". Payne, Ethel Lois (14 Aug. 1911-28 May 1991), journalist and civil rights activist, was born in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of William A. Payne and Bessie Austin. Her father worked in the city's stockyards before obtaining steady employment as a Pullman porter, one of the best jobs … [Read more...] about Thursday Open Thread: Incredible Investigative Journalists of Color
Tuesday Open Thread: Incredible Investigative Journalists of Color
Good Morning POU! Today's feature is a former head of the NAACP. Walter White used his light complexion to investigate lynchings by posing as a white man in the dangerous Jim Crow South. His actions, if discovered by anyone at these murderous events, would have led to his own immediate and brutal demise. Walter Francis White (July 1, 1893 – March 21, 1955) was an … [Read more...] about Tuesday Open Thread: Incredible Investigative Journalists of Color