Cooke, Marvel Jackson

Cooke, Marvel Jackson
▪ 2001

      American journalist (b. 1903?, Mankato, Minn.—d. Nov. 29, 2000, New York, N.Y.), wrote for such black publications as The Crisis, the Amsterdam News, and the People's Voice before becoming the first African American woman to serve (1949–52) as a reporter for a mainstream white-owned newspaper, the Daily Compass; among her work for that paper was a series, “I Was a Slave,” that exposed the chronic underpayment of domestic day labourers. She later worked for a number of left-leaning organizations.

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