Booker, Simeon, 1918-2017
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Name (Latin)
Booker, Simeon, 1918-2017
Other forms of name
Booker, Simeon, 1918-
Date of birth
1918-08-27
Date of death
2017-12-10
Occupation
Journalists
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
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Sources of Information
- LC database, Feb. 8, 2011(hdg.: Booker, Simeon; usage: Simeon Booker)
- New York times WWW site, viewed Dec. 11, 2017(in obituary published Dec. 10: Simeon S. Booker Jr.; b. Simeon Saunders Booker Jr., Aug. 27, 1918, Baltimore; moved with his family to Youngstown, Ohio when he was 5; d. Sunday [Dec. 10, 2017], Solomons, Md., aged 99; award-winning journalist and author who provided pioneering coverage of racial injustice and the civil rights struggle for readers of Jet and Ebony magazines and was The Washington post's first black reporter)
- National Visionary Leadership Project oral history, 2009-10-29:collection materials (Simeon Booker; journalist, worked for the Washington Post)
- Historymakers website, viewed Feb. 8, 2011:(Simeon Saunders Booker, Jr., b. Aug. 27, 1918 in Baltimore, MD, became the first full-time black reporter at the Washington Post)
- LC database, Feb. 8, 2011:(hdg.: Booker, Simeon; usage: Simeon Booker)
Wikipedia description:
Simeon Saunders Booker Jr. (August 27, 1918 – December 10, 2017) was an African-American journalist whose work appeared in leading news publications for more than 50 years. He was known for his journalistic works during the civil rights movement and for his coverage of the 1955 murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till. He worked for The Washington Post, Jet, and Ebony.
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