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Robert Lee Vann (August 27, 1879 – October 24, 1940) was an African American newspaper publisher and editor. He was the publisher and editor of the Pittsburgh Courier from 1910 [ 1 ] until his death.
In early March 1910, Robert Lee Vann drew up incorporation papers for the Courier and began writing articles. [5] Although the Courier was being printed by the Union News Company in Pittsburgh to save money, by March Harleston began to run out of money for the paper.
Jessie Vann (née Matthews, February 23, 1885; died June 7, ... In 1908 she met Robert Lee Vann, when he was a law student and she a kindergarten teacher. [4]
Record group: Record Group 208: Records of the Office of War Information, 1926 - 1951 (National Archives Identifier: 535)Series: Artworks and Mockups for Cartoons Promoting the War Effort and Original Sketches by Charles Alston, compiled ca. 1942 - ca. 1945 (National Archives Identifier: 535594)
1932 – Robert Russa Moton, principal of Tuskegee Institute. [217] 1932 – Phelps Phelps, New York assemblyman, later governor of American Samoa (1951–1952) 1932 – Robert Lee Vann, publisher and editor of the Pittsburgh Courier [218] 1933 – Marshall L. Shepard, later a Pennsylvania state representative. [219]
Representative leaders included Robert Sengstacke Abbott (1870–1940), publisher of the Chicago Defender; John Mitchell Jr. (1863–1929), editor of the Richmond Planet and president of the National Afro-American Press Association; Anthony Overton (1865–1946), publisher of the Chicago Bee, and Robert Lee Vann (1879–1940), the publisher and ...
Johnny Lee Vann Jr., a 35-year-old father who recently moved to Durham from Detroit, Mich., with his family, did not hesitate to jump into the rough waters after watching two of his seven children ...
Robert Lee Vann (1879–1940), publisher and editor of the Pittsburgh Courier Stephen Varzaly (1890–1957), priest, journalist, and cultural activist Tom Boggs (1905–1952), poet