Ada Crogman Franklin Explained

Ada Crogman Franklin
Birth Date:1886
Birth Place:Atlanta, Georgia
Death Date:December 24, 1983
Death Place:Kansas City, Missouri
Nationality:American
Occupation:Newspaper publisher, playwright, educator, journalist
Parents:William H. Crogman

Ada Crogman Franklin (1886 – December 24, 1983) was an American playwright, journalist, educator, and publisher of The Kansas City Call newspaper from 1955 to 1983.

Early life and education

Ada Crogman was born in Atlanta, Georgia, the daughter of William H. Crogman and Lavinia Mott Crogman.[1] [2] Her father was born on Saint Martin, in the Danish West Indies.[3] She graduated from Clark Atlanta University, where her father was the president and professor of Latin and Greek.[4] She pursued further studies in oratory at Emerson College in Massachusetts.[5] [6]

The Crogman family were active in education. Her sister Charlotte was a missionary, writer and editor; she married sociologist, clergyman and college president Richard R. Wright Jr. Another sister, Edith, married Robert Nathaniel Brooks, a clergyman, educator, and college president.[7] Charlotte's daughter Ruth Wright Hayre was a philanthropist and school superintendent in Philadelphia.[8]

Career

Crogman taught at Alabama State College and Tennessee State University as a young woman. As dramatics specialist for the National Playground and Recreation Association and the Community Service League Inc.,[9] [10] [11] she wrote a popular musical pageant, Milestones of a Race, and traveled to the cities where it was presented by local theatre groups.[12] [13] Another pageant by Franklin was titled Revel of the Seasons.[14]

Franklin also wrote for The Kansas City Call, the newspaper her husband founded and published. After 1955, she was publisher of the paper, with Lucile Bluford as editor.[15] [16] "She was the true matriarch of black journalism in America," commented publisher Carlton Goodlett, on the occasion of Franklin's death.[17]

Personal life

Ada Crogman married newspaper publisher Chester Arthur Franklin in 1925.[18] [19] [20] They lived in Kansas City, Missouri. She was widowed in 1955.[21] [22] She died in 1983, in her late nineties.[23] [24] Her papers are in the Black Archives of Mid-America in Kansas City.[25] [26]

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Notes and References

  1. News: Service Held for Wife of AME Bishop. 1959-05-30. The New York Age. 2020-02-22. 1. Newspapers.com.
  2. Hershaw. L. M.. Towns. George A.. Van Pelt. J. R.. Arnold. Edward A.. 1934. Notes. The Journal of Negro History. 19. 2. 211–224. 10.1086/JNHv19n2p211. 2714537. 224832081. 0022-2992.
  3. Web site: CROGMAN, William Henry. Ronnick. Michele Valerie. Database of Classical Scholars Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. en-gb. 2020-02-22.
  4. Book: Gillis, Delia C.. Kansas City. 2007-01-01. Arcadia Publishing. 978-0-7385-3448-0. 33. en.
  5. Web site: Ada Crogman Franklin. 2017-09-18. The Pendergast Years. 2020-02-21.
  6. November 1924. The Horizon. The Crisis. 30. 9781469638614. Perry. Imani.
  7. Web site: Brooks, Robert Nathaniel. Carroll. Grady L. E.. 1979. NCpedia. 2020-02-22.
  8. Web site: Charlotte Ruth Wright Hayre. Department of English, University of Pennsylvania. 2020-02-22.
  9. News: Colored People to Give Program Friday. 1922-01-17. The Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette. 2020-02-22. 3. Newspapers.com.
  10. News: For Colored Folk. 1921-11-08. The Fort Wayne Sentinel. 2020-02-22. 17. Newspapers.com.
  11. News: Ada Crogman Directs Pageant in Chicago. 1924-10-11. The Pittsburgh Courier. 2020-02-23. 11. Newspapers.com.
  12. Book: Perry, Imani. May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem. 2018-02-02. UNC Press Books. 978-1-4696-3861-4. 40–41. en.
  13. News: Date for Pageant by Comm. Service Changed. 1922-06-09. The Richmond Item. 2020-02-22. 10. Newspapers.com.
  14. News: Book Club to Give Pageant. 1942-04-25. The Pittsburgh Courier. 2020-02-21. 8. Newspapers.com.
  15. Book: Coulter, Charles Edward. Take Up the Black Man's Burden: Kansas City's African American Communities, 1865-1939. registration. Ada Crogman.. 2006. University of Missouri Press. 978-0-8262-6518-0. 111, 114. en.
  16. Web site: Kansas City Call —. African-American Heritage Trail of Kansas City. en-US. 2020-02-22.
  17. Web site: Ada C. Franklin, called the 'true matriarch of black.... December 25, 1983. UPI. en. 2020-02-21.
  18. News: Miss Ada Crogman of Philadelphia. 1925-07-25. The Pittsburgh Courier. 2020-02-22. 5. Newspapers.com.
  19. News: Newspaper Man to Marry. 1925-07-10. The Topeka Plaindealer. 2020-02-22. 1. Newspapers.com.
  20. Book: Who's who in Colored America. 1942. Who's Who in Colored America Corporation. 192. en.
  21. News: C. A. Franklin, Call Editor, Dies at 75. 1955-05-14. The Pittsburgh Courier. 2020-02-21. 16. Newspapers.com.
  22. News: Publisher is Laid to Rest. 1955-05-21. The Pittsburgh Courier. 2020-02-22. 1. Newspapers.com.
  23. News: Ap. Ada C. Franklin. 1983-12-26. The New York Times. 2020-02-21. en-US. 0362-4331.
  24. News: Ada C. Franklin, 'Matriarch of Black Journalism'. 1983-12-25. The Miami Herald. 2020-02-22. 577.
  25. Web site: Franklin Collection. Black Archives of Mid-America Kansas City. 2020-02-22.
  26. Web site: Black Archives set to re-open in Kansas City. Joplin Globe. 15 June 2012 . en. 2020-02-22.

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