Ted Poston with William Clark and Harriette Easterline, his assistants at Office of War Information news bureau.

ID: 3901 ~ Source: United States Office Of War Information, Palmer, Alfred T, photographer. Office of War Information news bureau. Ted Poston, Negro desk editor of the Office of War Information OWI, discusses a letter from one of the 240 Negro editors to which he sends war news from Washington, with William Clark and Harriette Easterlin, his assistants. United States Washington D.C. District of Columbia Washington D.C, 1943. Mar. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2017696594/.

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Ted Poston

By Amanda Higgins

Ted Poston, the subject of historical marker #2518, in Hopkinsville, was the “Dean of Black Journalists.” For 36 years, from 1936 until his retirement in 1972, Mr. Poston wrote for the New York Post as a staff writer. Poston was born in Hopkinsville…