J. C. Duke
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| Born | 1853 Alabama | ||
| Died | 1916 | ||
| Nationality | American | ||
| Citizenship | United States of America | ||
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Jesse Chisholm Duke (1853 - 1916) was an editor and publisher of newspapers in Alabama and Arkansas as well as a Republican Party political organizer.
He was born in Alabama.[1] He edited the Montgomery Herald and published content in support of civil rights and against lynching, a campaign that involved Ida B. Wells. He was chased out of Alabama.[1]
He settled in Pine Bluff, Arkansas and edited The Hornet, a successor to The Republican.[1] It shut down in 1885. In 1889 he became editor and published of The Weekly Echo.[1][2] He edited the short-lived Pine Bluff Weekly Herald in Pine Bluff, Arkansas in 1900.[3]
The Encyclopedia of Arkansas published a photo of him.[4] He was a Grand Chancellor in the Knights of Pythias and was a leading oragnizer of the group's expansion in Arkansas according to a glowing profile of him published in The Colored American in 1903.[5]
He was one of the people recruited to teach at Merrill High School (Arkansas) in Pine Bluff by Marion Rowlamd Perry Sr.[6]
He died in Chicago.[7]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Pine Bluff Weekly Herald". Encyclopedia of Arkansas.
- ↑ "The Weekly Echo (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 188?-1???". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.
- ↑ Duke, J. C. (January 27, 1900). "Pine Bluff Weekly Herald. (Pine Bluff, Ark.), Vol. 1, No. 3, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 27, 1900". The Portal to Texas History.
- ↑ "J. C. Duke". Encyclopedia of Arkansas.
- ↑ "Hon J.C. Duke Pine Bluff". September 12, 1903. p. 1 – via newspapers.com.
- ↑ Williams, Bettye J. (January 22, 2020). "The Pioneers: Early African-American Leaders in Pine Bluff, Arkansas: Freedmen, Newly Freed, and First/Second Generation, Born from 1833-1892". Archway Publishing – via Google Books.
- ↑ Billingsley, Andrew (February 14, 1992). "Climbing Jacob's Ladder: The Enduring Legacies of African-American Families". Simon and Schuster – via Google Books.
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