Pioneering Black Journalist Dies at Age 99
WASHINGTON — Simeon Booker, a trail-blazing journalist and the first
full-time African-American reporter at The Washington Post, died Sunday
at the age of 99, The Post reported.
Booker died in Solomons, Maryland, according to The Post, citing his wife, Carol.
Booker served for decades as the Washington bureau chief for the
African-American publications Jet weekly and Ebony monthly. He was
credited with bringing to national prominence the death of Emmett Till,
the 14-year old African-American boy whose brutal murder in Mississippi
became a galvanizing point for the nascent civil rights movement.
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