D. Elisabeth Glassco on Nostr: To gather news for his black readership, Abbott relied on printed materials left ...
To gather news for his black readership, Abbott relied on printed materials left behind by passengers in the passenger cars, often collected by black railroad employees. In 1910, Abbott's circumstances changed as he could finally hire his first full-time employee, managing editor J. Hockley Smiley. Smiley's efforts helped expand the paper's audience by incorporating news from across the nation.
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