1880's Famous People

Chester Arthur Franklin was the publisher 
and editor of the Kansas City Call from 1919 
to 1955. He published the first issue on May 6, 1919. He only focused his paper on serious topics concerning African Americans—race issues and politics.








H.L. Mencken was an American 
journalist, essayist, magazine editor, 
satirist, acerbic critic of American life and 
culture, and a scholar of American 
English. The American Mercury, founded 
by Mencken in 1924, is a newspaper that 
is still used today.