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Marvel Cooke oral history interview.
- Title
- Marvel Cooke oral history interview.
- Author
- Cooke, Marvel Jackson, 1903-2000,
- Publication
- 1989-1992.
- Supplementary Content
- Finding aid
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| Status | Vol/Date | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Box 1, Folders 10-11 | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MG Oral History Box 1, Folders 10-11 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Details
- Description
- 2 folders
- Subjects
- Note
- Shares a box with other oral history transcripts so folder numbers are listed accordingly.
- Source (note)
- Gift of Roger Wilkins, 2012.
- Call Number
- Sc MG 859
- Author
- Cooke, Marvel Jackson, 1903-2000, creator.
- Title
- Marvel Cooke oral history interview.
- Production
- 1989-1992.
- Summary
- Marvel Cooke was a newspaper editor, publisher, magazine and journal editor, and print journalist. Born in April 1903, in Mankato, Minnesota, Cooke attended the University of Minnesota. She became an editorial assistant of the "Crisis" in New York (1925) and was the secretary to the women's editor at the "Amsterdam News" in 1928, where she also became the first female news reporter. In 1936, she joined the Communist Party and became the assistant managing editor of the "People's Voice", a militant newspaper, in 1942. Cooke also was a reporter for the "Daily Compass" in New York (1950); the national legal defense secretary for the Angela Davis Defense Committee (1969); and the national vice chair of the National Council for American-Soviet Friendship (1980s). Cooke died in November 2000 in New York, New York.This collection includes an interview transcript with Marvel Cooke, conducted by Kathleen Currie, for the Washington Press Club Foundation project, "Women in Journalism". It was recorded in 1989. Additionally, there is correspondence between Cooke and the Foundation and a typescript draft of "Marvel Cooke: An African American Woman Journalist Who Agitated for Racial Reform" by Rodger Allan Streitmatter and Barbara Diggs-Brown for "Afro-Americans in New York Life and History", #16 (July 1992).
- Source
- Gift of Roger Wilkins, 2012.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- Sc MG 859