1. Ted Poston was one of the first African-American journalists to work on a mainstream white-owned newspaper, the New York Post.
11 Facts About Ted Poston
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Ted Poston is often referred to as the "Dean of Black Journalists".
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Ted Poston became a reporter for the New York Amsterdam News, a weekly newspaper geared to the city's African-American community, in Harlem in 1928.
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Ted Poston covered the Scottsboro Boys trials with much difficulty, as the Alabama authorities would not allow a black journalist to report in the segregated South.
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Ted Poston had to resort to disguising himself as a preacher and turning in his stories secretly with the help of white colleagues.
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Ted Poston safely escaped and wrote a series on the Groveland Case, for which the Post nominated him for a Pulitzer Prize.
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Ted Poston retired from the Post in 1972 to work on a collection of autobiographical short stories.
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Ted Poston was unable to complete the work as he suffered from complications from arteriosclerosis.
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Ted Poston was the Area Director for the New York State Division of Youth, and later the confidential assistant to New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, and she became the New York State Civil Service Commissioner during her marriage to Poston.
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Ted Poston was friends with Langston Hughes and traveled to the Soviet Union with him in 1932 to appear in an anti-segregation film.
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Ted Poston lived next door to his friend Thurgood Marshall for many years.