Member of the Socialist Party and active in the Populist movement. Reporter for the Los Angeles Record, editor of EPIC News, and a commissioner on the Los Angeles Board of Public Works.
Interviews in this series were made possible by support from the UCLA Center for African American Studies, Institute of American Cultures. This is the first of several Oral History Program series focusing on social, cultural, economic, and political aspects of African American citizens in the Lo...
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Publisher and business manager for the Los Angeles Sentinel.
Reporter, editorial writer, and editor for the Los Angeles Times. Founder of the political journal Frontier and Pulitzer Prize winner for editorials against government secrecy and judicial censorship.