Peggy Peterman was known for initiating the integration of the news that had previously been on a page devoted to blacks throughout the newspaper.
12 Facts About Peggy Peterman
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Peggy Peterman was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award both from the National Association of Black Journalists and the International Women's Media Foundation in 1999.
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Peggy Peterman was the daughter of William P Mitchell, a civil rights activist and was raised in Tuskegee, Alabama.
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Peggy Peterman graduated from Howard University with a law degree.
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Peggy Peterman died at the age of 67 on August 19,2004, at Bayfront Medical Center, St Petersburg, as a result of heart disease.
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In 1965, Peggy Peterman got a job at the St Petersburg Times writing for the "Negro News Page".
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Peggy Peterman is the founder of the Black History Pageant in St Petersburg.
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Peggy Peterman started writing for the St Petersburg Times in 1965 for the "Negro News Page", which she set out to end and disperse the news throughout the newspaper.
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Peggy Peterman worked to integrate black and white news and abolish the page about blacks.
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Peggy Peterman would keep these letters as inspiration and told her colleagues in the newsroom to look ahead.
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Peggy Peterman covered black issues with an approach that most journalists did not.
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Peggy Peterman said she could look at a community known to many as a low-income neighborhood in St Petersburg, and report about it as a place that many people would call their home.