He was later the vice president of a public relations firm, Cooper, Burns and Golin, from 1958 – 1966. He married Esther Stern on Novemand they had three children, Barbara, Richard and Stephen.īurns was the national editor of the Chicago Defender from 1941 - 1945, the editor of Negro Digest from 1942 - 1954, and the executive editor of Ebony from 1945 - 1954, Jet from 1950 – 1954, Sepia from 1955 - 1958and Guns magazine from 1956 - 1958. Burns attended New York University and received a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University in 1934.
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After working for black publications for thirty-five years, Burns referred to himself as “a black newspaperman, black in my orientation and thinking, in my concerns and outlook, in my friends and associations, black in everything but my skin color.” Burns summarized the influence that his experiences at black publications had on him: “I am a white man who has been passing for Negro for thirty-five years.”īorn Benjamin Bernstein on Augto Alexander, a housepainter, and Frieda Burns, Burns grew up on New York’s West Side. The materials in Part II of the collection date from 1939 to 1999.īen Burns had a long and distinguished career as “a white editor in black journalism.” He helped found Ebony and a number of other black publications and he trained many black writers in all aspects of print journalism. Burns donated these materials throughout the 1990s most of the materials were donated in April and May of 1995. This finding aid captures the materials in Part II of the collection. Approximately 135 linear feet, Part I includes materials dating from 1950 to 1979. Part I was processed by Deborah Holton in 1988. Part I was donated in 1981 and includes reference files and the personal library of Ben Burns. Send you an email message telling you why.The Ben Burns Papers consist of two parts. If we decide not to incorporate your report, we will usually
While we strive to fix printer’s errors, many words found in ourīooks may have archaic spelling.If you think we might need to communicate with Has page numbers, please include the page number otherwise please includeĪ significant text string to help us to locate the error. If the contents of theīook, please be as precise as you can as to the location. Please be clear in your message, if you are referring to the informationįound on this web page or the contents of the book. mobi file on your mobile device, please use. His publications included various books on the First World War and a large number of schoolbooks, and he edited Funk and Wagnall's Standard Encyclopaedia and Nelson's New Age Encyclopaedia. Asquith in the post-war split of the Liberal Party, considering himself a "Gladstonian Liberal". In 1917, the Member of Parliament for Edinburgh South, Charles Henry Lyell, stood down and Parrott was offered the candidacy by the local Liberal Association in April and he accepted it.
He was knighted in 1910 for services to the Liberal Party. He was elected chairman of the South Edinburgh Liberal Association in 1904 (until 1917), and the chair of Edinburgh United Liberal Committee in 1908 (until 1919). He worked in education in Sheffield and then Liverpool for several years, during which time he began to write schoolbooks as a result of this work, he was appointed educational editor at Thomas Nelson & Sons in 1898, and moved to Edinburgh. Paul's College, Cheltenham and then became an elementary schoolteacher, studying for a MA degree at Trinity College. Sir James Edward Parrott (1 June 1863-5 April 1921) was a British teacher and author, who served as the Liberal Member of Parliament from Edinburgh South for 1917-1918.īorn in Marple, Cheshire, the eldest son of a schoolteacher, he was educated at St.
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