Reminiscences of Wilbert Tatum : oral history, 1987.

Biographical Note

Newspaper publisher.

Scope and Contents

Early childhood and family life in North Carolina; sense of family within the Black community; issue of Black women raising white children; trip to New York, NY to receive high school journalism award from Columbia University, 1950; higher formal education at Lincoln and Yale Universities; rejection of religion; difficulties while establishing himself in New York City; participation in civil rights movement; work to improve city housing; purchase of Amsterdam News and its function within the Black community; Amsterdam News worker's strike; impressions of Edward I. Koch.

Subjects

• African American journalists--Interviews.
• African American newspapers.
• African Americans--Social conditions.
• African Americans in the newspaper industry.
• Bundy, Kissette, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Civil rights--United States.
• Interviews.
• Journalism.
• Journalists--Interviews.
• New York (N.Y.)--Politics and government.
• Oral histories.
• Tatum, Wilbert.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New york, 1987.