"Angelo Herndon Comes Back from Georgia"
Essay
By: Theodore Poston
Date: c. 1939
Source: Poston, Theodore. "Angelo Herndon Comes Back from Georgia." American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936–1940. American Memory digital primary source collection, Library of Congress. Available online at http://memory.loc.gov (accessed March 3, 2003).
About the Author: Theodore Roosevelt Augustus Major Poston (1906–1974) was born in Hopkinsville, KY. He worked various odd jobs until landing his first writing job as a reporter for the New York daily Amsterdam News in 1929, where he was the first black to work full time at a white-owned daily. He became city editor of the paper in 1934, but was fired for organizing a strike in 1936. He then worked as a writer for the Works Progress Administration until being hired as a reporter for the New York...
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