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Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and John Edward Bruce: The Relationship of a Militant Black Journalist with the "Father of Civil Rights," and the "Wizard of Tuskegee."

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From: Afro - Americans in New York Life and History
Date: 19980731
Author:L, Ralph

Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and John Edward Bruce: The Relationship of a Militant Black Journalist with the "Father of Civil Rights," and the "Wizard of Tuskegee."

During the late nineteenth century, John Edward Bruce (1856-1924) was a leading Black journalist, a prominent Republican activist, and one of African America's foremost self-trained historians. Along with T. Thomas Fortune (1856-1928), Bruce, who also wrote under the pen name "Bruce Grit," was the most respected voice associated with the national Black press during his era. He had a tentative and sometimes volatile ...

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