Virginia Union’s Simeon Booker, Iconic Civil Rights Journalist, Dies
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Simeon Booker, a dean of black journalists with a career spanning the entirety of the American Civil Rights movement, died last Sunday in Maryland. He was 99. A Baltimore native and Virginia Union University graduate, Booker is credited with breaking the story on the murder of Chicago teen Emmitt Till in Mississippi in 1955. His reporting and images helped to spur the national movement for black equality in labor, criminal justice, housing and social tolerance.
Virginia Union’s Simeon Booker, Iconic Civil Rights Journalist, Dies
Virginia Union’s Simeon Booker, Iconic Civil…
Virginia Union’s Simeon Booker, Iconic Civil Rights Journalist, Dies
Simeon Booker, a dean of black journalists with a career spanning the entirety of the American Civil Rights movement, died last Sunday in Maryland. He was 99. A Baltimore native and Virginia Union University graduate, Booker is credited with breaking the story on the murder of Chicago teen Emmitt Till in Mississippi in 1955. His reporting and images helped to spur the national movement for black equality in labor, criminal justice, housing and social tolerance.