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National Association
of Black Journalists
Located at the
UNIVERSITY
OF MARYLAND
8701-A Adelphi Road
Adelphi, Md.
20783-1716
(301) 445-7100
(301) 445-7101 fax
nabj@nabj.org
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NABJ Hall of Fame
| Seven distinguished journalists became charter members
of the NABJ Hall of Fame on April 5, 1990, at a ceremony in Washington.
No one has been inducted since. The Board of Directors in April approved
measures calling on NABJ each year to induct black journalists who have
made outstanding contributions to our profession.
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| 1990 Inductees |
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 Dorothy
Butler Gilliam,
“magnetic presence" as a reporter,
editor and columnist at The Washington Post.
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 Mal
H. Goode,
broke
color barrier in network broadcast
journalism as ABC News reporter
in 1962. |
 Mal
Johnson,
a founding NABJ member, longtime correspondent for Cox Broadcasting Co.
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 Gordon
Parks,
renowned photojournalist at Life magazine, author,
filmmaker.
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 Ted
Poston,
called “dean of black journalists” during New York Post career
(1930s-1960s). |
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 Norma
Quarles,
veteran network anchor and correspondent at NBC News, CNN and PBS. |
 Carl
T. Rowan,
renowned columnist once called nation’s "most visible black
journalist."
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2004 Inductees
The Board of Directors voted in April to induct three distinguished journalists
into the NABJ Hall of Fame. They will be formally inducted on August
5, 2004, at the association’s banquet during the UNITY 2004: Journalists
of Color Convention in Washington.
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Robert
Maynard
Co-founder,
Institute
for Journalism Education
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Legendary Inductees
Accepting a strong recommendation from the NABJ Hall of Fame selection
committee, the Board of Directors voted in April to induct 10 historical
journalism figures as a one-time measure. The committee's rationale was
that any legitimate Hall of Fame of black journalists must include these
legendary figures and that this year's revival of the Hall of Fame was
the appropriate time to include them.
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 Robert
S. Abbott,
founded the Chicago Defender, which helped create
the Great Migration to the North.
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 Samuel
E. Cornish, co-publisher, Freedom’s
Journal, the nation’s first black newspaper.
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 Frederick
Douglass, a former slave and the nation’s
most prominent abolitionist and the publisher of the North Star.
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 W.E.B.
DuBois, a NAACP founder and creator and first
editor of its magazine, The Crisis.
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 T.
Thomas Fortune,
one of the most prominent black journalists in the post-Civil War era.
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 Marcus
Garvey,
journalist for Africa Times and Orient Review, publisher
of Negro World.
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 Ethel
Payne,
“First Lady of the Black Press,” D.C. correspondent for Sengstacke
Newspapers.
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 John
B. Russwurm,
co-publisher, Freedom’s Journal, the nation’s first
black newspaper.
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 John
Sengstacke,
founder of Michigan Chronicle and publisher of Chicago Defender and Pittsburgh
Courier.
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 Ida
B. Wells-Barnett,
newspaper editor, crusader against segregation and lynching in United
States.
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