Hopkinsville, KY, United States
Ted Poston "Dean of Black Journalists". Theodore Roosevelt Poston was born on July 4, 1906, in Hopkinsville. He was a graduate of Attucks High School and Tennessee A&I State College. In 1936 he began freelance writing for the New York Post and was soon hired full-time. He retired in 1972 after spend
ing a career there. He died in NYC in 1974 and is buried in Cave Spring Cemetery, Hopkinsville. He covered major civil rights stories of his era and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1949. Poston
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