Occupation – Newspaper publisher
Thomas Berkley (1915–2001)
Attorney, newspaper publisher, and world-class athlete Thomas Lucius Berkley was born Thomas Lucius Berkley on August 9, 1915, in DuQuoin,...
Matthew T. Whittico (1866-1939)
Prominent West Virginia newspaper publisher and politician Matthew Thomas Whittico was born near Martinsville, in Henry County, Virginia, on September...
John H. Murphy III (1916-2010)
John H. Murphy was the chairman and head publisher of the influential Afro-American Newspaper Company in Baltimore, Maryland. Murphy was...
Fitzgerald Redd Beaver (Fitz) (1922–1992)
“Image Ownership:CTC96” Fitzgerald Redd Beaver was a mid-and late 20th century media entrepreneur in the Pacific Northwest. He was the...
Leon H. Washington, Jr. (1907-1974)
Founding publisher of the Los Angeles-based African American newspaper, the Sentinel, Leon H. Washington Jr. was born in Kansas City,...
Josiah Thomas Walls (1842-1905)
First elected to the Congress in 1870, Josiah T. Walls became Florida’s first elected African American congressman. Walls was born...
Horace Roscoe Cayton, Sr. (1859-1940)
Horace Roscoe Cayton spent nearly all his life combating racism. The child of a Mississippi slave, Cayton came of age...
