Each One Teach One #2!

 For this EOTO, we focused on more modern journalists (20th century) that paved the way for us today. I did mine on journalist/cartoonist Jackie Ormes. Check out that blog post here!

One presentation that I found interesting, was on journalist Nancy Hicks Maynard. 

Nancy Hicks Maynard, 1992

Maynard was one of the first black, female journalists for The New York Times. Born in Harlem, New York in 1946, she began her interest in journalism after an incident occurred at the elementary school in her neighborhood. She didn't like the way her neighborhood was being portrayed in the newspaper, so she wrote them a letter. It was later published in the newspaper. 

Her journalism career started at the New York Post where she worked as a copy girl and reporter. At the age of 21, she was hired at the New York Times. 

She did a story on the Ocean-Hill Brownsville conflict which was one of her major stories. This story led to her promotion at the Times and made her the first African-American woman to hold the position as a full-time reporter for the publication. 

Maynard and her husband, Robert C. Maynard created the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education (MIJE), an organization that provided minority students with skills and trainings on how to become successful journalists. 

The Oakland Tribune was bought by Maynard and when she died in 2008, it was the only black-owned metropolitan newspaper.