The Noble Warrior: Chester Arthur Franklin and The Kansas City Call, 1919-1955
A biography of Chester Arthur Franklin, founder of The Kansas City Call. The Call would become one of the six largest African American weekly newspapers in the United States and one of the largest black-owned and operated businesses in the Midwest. Prominent employees of The Call included Roy Wilkins, Frank A. (Fay) Young, and Lucile Bluford.
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Table of Contents
Chapter One
The Beginning: Like Father, Like Son, Omaha Nebraska, 1880-1898
Chapter Two
From Denver to Kansas City, 1898-1913
Chapter Three
The Golden Years: Entertainment, Business, Baseball, and Politics, 1913-1930
Chapter Four
Depression, World War II, and Politics, 1930-1950
Chapter Five
A New World A-Coming: The Kansas City Call, 1950-1953
Chapter Six
On the Road to Brown, 1954-1955
Conclusion
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