Dark Side of Hopkinsville [Paperback]

Ted Poston (Author)
TED POSTON (1906-1974) was born and raised in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. He became the first black career-long reporter for a major metropolitan daily (the New York Post) and served as a member of Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Negro Cabinet" in Washington in 1940. Poston, who is commonly known as the "Dean of Black Journalists," is a charter inductee into the National Association of Black Journalists Hall of Fame.

Kathleen A. Hauke (Editor)
KATHLEEN A. HAUKE (1935–2004) taught at Morris Brown College and at the University of Nairobi in Kenya.

Preserving an engaging, little-known slice of American life, The Dark Side of Hopkinsville is a collection of ten picaresque tales bearing witness to a black child's life in a southern town at the turn of the century.

Born and reared in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, Ted Poston (1906-1974) became the first black career-long reporter for a major metropolitan daily (the New York Post) and served as a member of Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Negro Cabinet" in Washington in 1940. After thirty-five years at the Post, Poston was without question the "Dean of Black Journalists."

Acquainted with the major figures of the Harlem Renaissance, Poston regaled his associates with tales of his childhood. These memories resulted in the stories collected in The Dark Side of Hopkinsville. Told from the vantage point of "Ted," a bright, high-spirited student at Booker T. Washington Colored Grammar School, the stories focus on a coterie of imaginative children, their entertainments and games, ties to the church, and relations with immediate and extended families.

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