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Martin Luther King Jr Day
Several women’s page editors worked to include more news from the black community in their sections. Editors Vivian Castleberry (Dallas), Carol Sutton (Louisville) and Edee Greene (Fort Lauderdale) fought to include the photos of black brides in their sections in the 1960s. This was at a time when the news sections rarely included coverage of any black residents. Years later, Sutton worked on several initiatives to hire more black reporters at the Louisville newspaper.
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Reference to Bobbi McCallum in book
I recently discovered a reference to Seattle women’s page journalist Bobbi McCallum in this book: I started reading it a few days ago. Here is the reference: I am almost done with my article on Bobbi. It is scheduled to be published this Spring.
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Edee Greene
I also heard from one of Edee Greene’s granddaughter yesterday and I hope to meet her soon. (Edee was the women’s page editor at the Fort Lauderdale News.) My article about Edee is coming out in 2011. Edee Greene on Dipity.
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More on Carol Sutton
Yesterday, I received an email from Charles Whaley, husband of Louisville women’s page editor Carol Sutton. (Carol went on to become managing editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal – the first woman in this position.) Carol is included in a book about Kentucky’s history and the newspaper reviewed the book yesterday. Below is a photo of Carol from the book review. Below is the book with a chapter about Carol: My article about Carol will come out this Spring.
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Beverley Morales and North Dakota
A wonderful researcher has collected some clips of the newspaper the Beulah Independent. Beverley Brink Morales (a Florida women’s page editor in the 1960s) and her husband Hector Morales owned the newspaper in the 1950s. Above is one of several editorials that Beverley wrote while running the newspaper. This is the wedding notice of her sister. Beverley’s maiden name was Brink. I am working on an article about Beverley’s long career especially the ways she reinvented herself after the end of the women’s pages.
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Nixon Library
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy In this clip is a reference to a document showing President Nixon’s reluctance to appoint women to significant governmental positions. This was something that Vera Glaser (women’s page and political journalist) and government employee Catherine East worked on. I have gone through the most recent batch of information made available from the Nixon Library in the hopes of finding references to East or Glaser. I did not finding anything about those women. (In another women’s page reference, until recently, the Nixon Library was run by the son of Detroit and Phoenix women’s page editor Jean Taylor.) I did…
A website devoted to the history of newspaper women's pages
