Geraldine Moore: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
mNo edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
Line 6: | Line 6: | ||
{{stub}} | {{stub}} | ||
{{DEFAULTSORT:Moore, Geraldine}} | |||
[[Category:Authors]] | [[Category:Authors]] | ||
[[Category:Columnists]] | [[Category:Columnists]] | ||
[[Category:Birmingham News]] | [[Category:Birmingham News staffers]] |
Latest revision as of 15:16, 3 January 2020
Geraldine Hamilton Cook Moore was a writer, and the first African-American female columnist for The Birmingham News.
Moore self-published a pamphlet in 1948 entitled "Breaking the Chains that Bind", aimed at providing help for Birmingham's black residents seeking to improve themselves. She then researched and wrote a broader study of conditions in black Birmingham entitled Behind the Ebony Mask, which was published by the Southern University Press in 1961.
Moore was hired by the News as a part-time contributor in 1953, to take over the "What Negroes Are Doing" column from Oscar Adams Sr. She became a full-time staffer in 1964.