Ted Poston scrapbook

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unitid

{"value"=>"21119", "type"=>"local_mss"}

{"value"=>"Sc MG 530", "type"=>"local_call"}

unitdate

{"value"=>"1949-1960", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1949/1960"}

unittitle

{"value"=>"Ted Poston scrapbook"}

physdesc

{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"1 volume", "unit"=>"volumes"}]}

repository

{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division</span>"}

abstract

{"value"=>"Ted Poston was the first full-time African-American journalist for the <span class=\"title\">New York Post</span>. The Ted Poston Scrapbook contains newspaper articles by Poston for four series: \"Dixie's Fight for Freedom\" (1959) called the Little Scottsboro Case concerning three African-American youth convicted of raping a white woman in Tavares, Florida in 1949, \"Nine Kids Who Dared: Human Drama in Little Rock\" (1957), \"Inside the Policy Racket\" focusing on the Harlem numbers racket (1960), and \"Prejudice and Progress in New York,\" n.d., all published by the <span class=\"title\">New York Post</span>."}

langmaterial

{"value"=>"English"}

origination

{"value"=>"Poston, Ted, 1906-1974", "type"=>"persname"}

bioghist

{"value"=>"<p>Ted Poston was the first full-time African-American journalist for the <span class=\"title\">New York Post</span>. There he covered many major black oriented news stories as well as mainstream items, working from 1936 until his retirement in 1972. Prior to this appointment, he wrote for the <span class=\"title\">Pittsburgh Courier</span>, <span class=\"title\">Amsterdam News</span>, and the <span class=\"title\">New York Contender</span>. He was also on the staff of the Federal Writers' Project. From 1940-1945 Poston was a member of the \"Black Cabinet,\" an informal network of African Americans serving in or advising the Roosevelt administration. He remained in Washington as head of the Negro News Desk in the Office of War Information and was responsible for relations with the Negro press until the end of World War II, whereupon he returned to his position with the <span class=\"title\">New York Post</span>. <span class=\"title\">The Dark Side of Hopkinsville</span>, a book of his short stories, edited by Kathleen Hauke, was published posthumously in 1991.</p>"}

scopecontent

{"value"=>"<p>The Ted Poston Scrapbook contains newspaper articles by journalist Ted Poston, for four series: \"Dixie's Fight for Freedom\" (1959) called the Little Scottsboro Case concerning three African-American youth convicted of raping a white woman in Tavares, Florida in 1949, \"Nine Kids Who Dared: Human Drama in Little Rock\" (1957), \"Inside the Policy Racket\" focusing on the Harlem numbers racket (1960), and \"Prejudice and Progress in New York,\" n.d., all published by the <span class=\"title\">New York Post</span>. Ted Poston won the George Polk journalism award for the rape case article and was nominated for additional awards for other articles.</p>"}

acqinfo

{"value"=>"<p>Gift, St. Clair T. Bourne</p>"}

sponsor

{"value"=>"Home to Harlem Project, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation"}

revisiondesc

{"value"=>"This finding aid was updated by Allison Hughes.", "date"=>"2020 November 10"}

date_start

1949

keydate

1949

date_end

1960

date_inclusive_start

1949

date_inclusive_end

1960

extent_statement

1 volume

prefercite

{"value"=>"[Item], Ted Poston scrapbook, Sc MG 530, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library"}

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