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Ted Poston (Author)
TED POSTON (1906-1974) was born and raised in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. He became the first black career-long reporter for a major metropolitan daily (the New York Post) and served as a member of Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Negro Cabinet" in Washington in 1940. Poston, who is commonly known as the "Dean of Black Journalists," is a charter inductee into the National Association of Black Journalists Hall of Fame.

Kathleen A. Hauke (Editor)
KATHLEEN A. HAUKE (1935–2004) taught at Morris Brown College and at the University of Nairobi in Kenya.