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3 unusual facts about Jackie Ormes


Jackie Ormes

Ormes started in journalism as a proofreader for the Pittsburgh Courier, a weekly African American newspaper that came out every Saturday.

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She was also on the founding board of directors for the DuSable Museum of African American History.

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Ormes moved to Chicago in 1942, and soon began writing occasional articles and, briefly, a social column for the Chicago Defender, one of the nation's leading black newspapers, a weekly at that time.



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