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Percy Greene (1897–1977) was an American newspaper editor, and journalist. [1] [2] Greene created the Jackson Advocate, Mississippi's first and oldest black-owned newspaper. [1] In the 1940s and 1950s, Greene had been a staunch civil rights activist; but by the 1960s, Green supported segregation. [3]
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Thomas McAdory Owen (1900), "Bibliography of Mississippi", Report of the American Historical Association for 1899, p. 777, hdl:2027/mdp.39015039328946 – via HathiTrust, Newspaper Press "Mississippi" .
He soon changed the name to the Jackson Daily News, keeping it as an evening newspaper. Thomas and Robert Hederman bought the Daily Clarion-Ledger in 1920 and dropped "Daily" from its masthead. On August 24, 1937, The Clarion-Ledger and Jackson Daily News incorporated under a charter issued to Mississippi Publishers Corporation for the purpose ...
Tito Jackson's family has laid the Jackson 5 singer to rest nearly two months after his death at 70.. According to People magazine, TMZ and the Daily Mail, Jackson's funeral took place Monday at ...
Sarah Becker, who starred in Season 5 of MTV’s The Real World, has died. She was 52 years old. A family member confirmed Becker’s death to TMZ on Sunday, saying she died by suicide early last ...
The newspaper was founded in 1938 by Percy Greene. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Greene, a veteran of World War I and a Civil Rights leader in the 1940s and 1950s, was determined to make a contribution to the struggle of African-American people in the South during a time when they were severely oppressed by legal segregation and Jim Crow laws .
The Mississippi Enterprise was one of two African American newspapers in Jackson, Mississippi. Arrington High worked at the paper. [ 2 ] Publication years include 1939–1980. [ 3 ]