BLACK SOCIAL HISTORY : AFRICAN AMERICAN " CHARLOTTA SPEARS BASS " WAS A JOURNALIST AND ACTIVIST WHO WAS EDITOR OF THE CALIFORNIA EAGLE AND CHAMPIONED AFRICAN AMERICAN EQUALITY AND FREEDOM :: GOES INTO THE " HALL OF BLACK GENIUS "

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Charlotta Spears Bass Biography

Editor, Educator, Journalist (1874–1969)

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QUICK FACTS

NAME

Charlotta Spears Bass

OCCUPATION

Editor, Educator, Journalist

BIRTH DATE

February 14, 1874

DEATH DATE

April 2, 1969

PLACE OF BIRTH

Sumter, South Carolina

PLACE OF DEATH

Los Angeles, California

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Charlotta Spears Bass was a journalist and activist who, as editor of the California Eagle, championed African-American equality and freedom.

Synopsis

Born on February 14, 1874, in Sumter, South Carolina, Charlotta Spears Bass worked as managing editor of the African-American newspaper The California Eagle. She and husband Joseph Bass called for an end to segregation and denounced groups like the Klu Klux Klan, among a host of other issues. Bass would later become the first black woman to run for U.S. vice president. She died on April 12, 1969.