supportive of his colleague and fellow sociologist
CHARLESS. JOHNSON, who was the editor of OP-
PORTUNITY,the organization’s official publication.
Bibliography
Jones, Eugene Kinckle. The First Forty Years of Service to
the American People.National Urban League 40th
Anniversary Year Book, 1950. New York: National
Urban League, 1951.
Parris, Guichard, and Lester Brooks. Blacks in the City: A
History of the National Urban League.Boston: Little,
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Jones, George B. (unknown)
An editor of the INTER-STATETATTLER,the New
York City newspaper known for its coverage of
African-American social events. Jones became edi-
tor after BENNIE BUTLER and GERALDYN DIS-
MOND, also editors, focused on theater and social
events. The paper, which began publication in
1925, ceased in 1932.
Jones, Henry Joshua(1876–1953)
A South Carolina newspaper editor, poet, and
writer who published primarily during the 1920s.
Born in Orangeburg, South Carolina, Jones pursued
a career in journalism after graduating from
BROWNUNIVERSITY. He began at the Providence
News.He relocated to BOSTON, where he worked
at several newspapers, including the Boston Adver-
tiser,where he became city editor. After working for
four years as secretary to Boston mayor James Cur-
ley, Jones was appointed to the position of editor of
the City Record.
Jones made his literary debut with HEART OF
THEWORLD ANDOTHERPOEMSin 1919. Two years
later, he published Poems of the Four Seas(1921). His
poem “To a Skull,” a vaguely morbid poem in which
a “[g]hastly, ghoulish, grinning” skull is interrogated,
was included in THEBOOK OFAMERICANNEGRO
POETRY,the 1922 anthology edited by JAMESWEL-
DONJOHNSON. In 1924 Jones branched out into fic-
tion and published BYSANCTION OFLAW,a novel
in which he explored the cultural and social value of
interracial marriage.
Journal of Negro History
The first American scholarly journal to focus ex-
plicitly on African-American history. The ASSOCI-
ATION FOR THE STUDY OF NEGRO LIFE AND
HISTORYestablished it in 1916. The HARVARD
UNIVERSITY–educated scholar and SPINGARN
MEDALwinner CARTERG. WOODSONwas instru-
mental in the journal’s production. The first editor
of the publication, Woodson also invested $400 of
his own money to finance the production of the
first issue. The journal later was subsidized by funds
from Harlem Renaissance–era philanthropists such
as Julius Rosenwald.
In 2001, the journal was renamed the Journal
of African American History.Bibliography
Goggin, Jacqueline. Carter G. Woodson: A Life in Black
History.Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University
Press, 1993.
Greene, Lorenzo Johnston. Working with Carter G. Wood-
son, the Father of Black History: A Diary, 1928–1930.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press,
1989.Juliette DerricotteMarion Vera Cuthbert
(1933)
A biography of Juliette Derricotte, a graduate of
Talladega College, and the dean of women at FISK
UNIVERSITY. Written by MARION VERA CUTH-
BERT, an activist and writer who, like Derricotte,
was a member of the YOUNGWOMEN’SCHRIS-
TIAN ASSOCIATION (YWCA), the book is a
memorial biography to honor Derricotte, who died
in 1931 when racist Atlanta hospitals refused to
treat the life-threatening injuries that she sus-
tained in a car crash.
Born in Athens, Georgia, in 1897, Derricotte
was an exceptional scholar and highly respected
figure in education. The first woman appointed to
the Board of Trustees at Talladega College, she
also served as national student secretary for the
YWCA before joining the administration at Fisk
University.Bibliography
Cuthbert, Marion Vera. Juliette Derricotte.New York: Pil-
grim Press, 1933.294 Jones, George B.