User:Crtew/Ernest Dunbar
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}}Ernest Dunbar (February 3, 1927 – February 3, 2011), an American journalist and editor for Look Magazine, in Iowa and Washington D.C., United States, was the first African-American journalist hired by a mainstream magazine company.{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?n=ernest-dunbar&pid=148564901|title=ERNEST DUNBAR's Obituary on New York Times|website=New York Times}} {{cite web|url=http://www.the-latest.com/first-black-journalist-mainstream-reporting-dies-83|title=First Black journalist in mainstream reporting dies at 83 - The Latest - Citizen Journalism for All|website=www.the-latest.com}}
Personal
Ernest was born in Manhattan, New York on February 3, 1927.{{cite web|url=http://www.northwestern.edu/magazine/summer2011/alumnilife/passings/index.html|title=Passings: Northwestern Magazine - Northwestern University|website=www.northwestern.edu}} Dunbar earned an undergraduate degree in journalism from Temple University in 1954, where he was editor of the university newspaper. {{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_MADAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA26&lpg=PA26&dq=%22Ernest+Dunbar%22+%22Look+Magazine%22&source=bl&ots=_nkQn3JjwJ&sig=lprL3LSfV8qYN3MZYPOq73ordMQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjo78G6jPbWAhUKziYKHWmXDa04ChDoAQgvMAM#v=onepage&q&f=false|title=Jet|first=Johnson Publishing|last=Company|date=23 September 1965|publisher=Johnson Publishing Company|via=Google Books}} At Northwestern University Dunbar went on a quest for graduate work and soon after graduating was named the assistant editor at Look magazine in 1958 as a reporter. {{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PisxDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT135&lpg=PT135&dq=ernest+dunbar+journalist&source=bl&ots=vzDD1lOjDF&sig=pDK2EMoMJjkJzl2QMQiYGo2zw-M&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjlgp7jzr7WAhXDy1QKHUsrAeIQ6AEIXTAN#v=onepage&q=ernest+dunbar+journalist&f=false|title=Other Voices: The New Journalism in America|first=Everette|last=Dennis|date=5 July 2017|publisher=Routledge|via=Google Books}} In 1971, Dunbar was awarded an honorary doctorate in journalism from Temple University.{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WUgzs26Vz1MC&pg=PA44&lpg=PA44&dq=%22Ernest+Dunbar%22+Exxon&source=bl&ots=0qZut8UBXM&sig=pgDt_xhLUlF3x3VTrwJ9jDetOmw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjT6fjTiPbWAhXEMSYKHdiXDe4Q6AEIMjAC#v=onepage&q=%22Ernest+Dunbar%22+Exxon&f=false|title=Black Enterprise|first=Earl G. Graves|last=Ltd|date=1 May 1980|publisher=Earl G. Graves, Ltd.|via=Google Books}} Dunbar passed away at the age of 83.
== Career ==
Dunbar was a journalist for Temple University newspaper, as well as a long-time reporter for Look Magazine. Dunbar also wrote books and published a book titled Nigeria {{cite web|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/ernest-dunbar/nigeria/|title=NIGERIA by Ernest Dunbar - Kirkus Reviews|publisher=}}, that was a discussion of Nigeria’s geography and resources and rich artistic heritage. Not only that but Dunbar successfully published nine other books all in which sold well. ( World Cat identities of Ernest Dunbar (1927-2011) During Dunbar's career he also had the pleasure of interviewing many people, including NAACP organizer Ruby Hurley. https://books.google.com/books?id=m8JCDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT82&lpg=PT82&dq=%22Ernest+Dunbar%22+%22Look+Magazine%22&source=bl&ots=5ytveXyK8D&sig=MDAkVIV3lvr5ijbq2CGU3TRW-qg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjgrdzUifbWAhXH64MKHX1sDSoQ6AEIYTAP#v=onepage&q=%22Ernest%20Dunbar%22%20%22Look%20Magazine%22&f=false. Dunbar also interviewed many African-Americans living in other countries about black American perceptions of discrimination in those countries. {{cite web|url=http://www.wnyc.org/story/ernest-dunbar/|title=Ernest Dunbar|publisher=}} Along with being a well known journalist, Dunbar also had the pleasure of being one of the three selected to travel to Africa and conduct seminar for African Newsmen. {{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/06/26/3-us-editors-going-to-africa.html|title=3 U.S. Editors Going to Africa|date=26 June 1964|website=The New York Times}} After becoming a journalist and editor Dunbar started using his power and focused on the high political stakes that were involved in the United States Government and their slow movement to fight Jim Crow. {{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uQvIAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA126&lpg=PA126&dq=%22Ernest+Dunbar%22+%22Look+Magazine%22&source=bl&ots=9ZuRH-YnK7&sig=vM2KgldwE4AfHxEpld1_Gpy3QrA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjgrdzUifbWAhXH64MKHX1sDSoQ6AEIWzAN#v=onepage&q=%22Ernest+Dunbar%22+%22Look+Magazine%22&f=false|title=Postwar Anti-Racism: The United States, UNESCO, and "Race," 1945-1968|first=Anthony Q.|last=Hazard|date=31 October 2012|publisher=Springer|via=Google Books}}
Notable works of journalism
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What are the important works of journalism by this person and for which this person is most known or awarded? Describe this person's role in this work, what it is about, and the outcome with citations.
Context
Dunbar did a lot for the world of journalism by being the first African-American hired by a mainstream magazine, but his most notable work of journalism was the article he signed off on title White Worlds Spy. http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg%20Subject%20Index%20Files/B%20Disk/Blacks%20Miscellaneous/126.pdf
Books
- Nigeria
- The Lamp
- The Negro in America Today
- Elegant, disciplined, beautiful
- The Black expatriates. A study of American Negroes in exile. Edited and with an introduction by Ernest Dunbar
- The sweet appeal of James Taylor
- India's "food miracle."
- Keeping the sea at Bay
- The Negro faces north
Awards
- NABJ Hall of Fame (2014) {{cite web|url=https://www.scribd.com/document/187296692/NABJ-Hall-of-Fame-Information|title=NABJ Hall of Fame - Information - News Media - Mass Media|website=Scribd}}
- Capital Press Journalism Award (1965) {{cite web|url=https://newspapers.library.in.gov/cgi-bin/indiana?a=d&d=INR19650626-01.1.7|title=Indianapolis Recorder 26 June 1965 — Hoosier State Chronicles: Indiana's Digital Historic Newspaper Program|website=newspapers.library.in.gov}}
- 1970 Russwurm Awards http://www.nytimes.com/1970/04/28/archives/urban-league-cites-eight-journalists.html?_r=0
See also
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- legacy (Nytimes Obit!){{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?n=ernest-dunbar&pid=148564901|title=ERNEST DUNBAR's Obituary on New York Times|website=New York Times}}
- northwestern (alumni){{cite web|url=http://www.northwestern.edu/magazine/summer2011/alumnilife/passings/index.html|title=Passings: Northwestern Magazine - Northwestern University|website=www.northwestern.edu}}
- the-latest (obit){{cite web|url=http://www.the-latest.com/first-black-journalist-mainstream-reporting-dies-83|title=First Black journalist in mainstream reporting dies at 83 - The Latest - Citizen Journalism for All|website=www.the-latest.com}}
- son1{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/07/26/style/weddings-pamela-k-heard-and-dean-e-dunbar.html|title=Pamela K. Heard and Dean E. Dunbar|date=26 July 1992|website=The New York Times}}
- son2{{cite web|url=https://journalisms.theroot.com/fast-change-of-leadership-at-huffpos-globalblack-1790883817|title=Fast Change of Leadership at HuffPo's GlobalBlack|first=Richard|last=Prince|publisher=}}
- jet in Jet May 13, 1971{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lzcDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA49&lpg=PA49&dq=%22Ernest+Dunbar%22+%22Look+Magazine%22&source=bl&ots=lnA-fpUv7T&sig=lH0fN0rOKHAqvPf6-virRmuGaRQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjgrdzUifbWAhXH64MKHX1sDSoQ6AEIQDAE#v=onepage&q=%22Ernest+Dunbar%22+%22Look+Magazine%22&f=false|title=Jet|first=Johnson Publishing|last=Company|date=13 May 1971|publisher=Johnson Publishing Company|via=Google Books}}
- overseas trip to Africa{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/06/26/3-us-editors-going-to-africa.html|title=3 U.S. Editors Going to Africa|date=26 June 1964|website=The New York Times}}
- jet1965 on trip to Africa in Jet September 23, 1965{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_MADAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA26&lpg=PA26&dq=%22Ernest+Dunbar%22+%22Look+Magazine%22&source=bl&ots=_nkQn3JjwJ&sig=lprL3LSfV8qYN3MZYPOq73ordMQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjo78G6jPbWAhUKziYKHWmXDa04ChDoAQgvMAM#v=onepage&q&f=false|title=Jet|first=Johnson Publishing|last=Company|date=23 September 1965|publisher=Johnson Publishing Company|via=Google Books}}
- Hoosier State Chronicles "12 receive awards at Capital Press Club's banquet"{{cite web|url=https://newspapers.library.in.gov/cgi-bin/indiana?a=d&d=INR19650626-01.1.7|title=Indianapolis Recorder 26 June 1965 — Hoosier State Chronicles: Indiana's Digital Historic Newspaper Program|website=newspapers.library.in.gov}}
- nytimes (awards)http://www.nytimes.com/1970/04/28/archives/urban-league-cites-eight-journalists.html?_r=0
- NABJ (award){{cite web|url=https://www.scribd.com/document/187296692/NABJ-Hall-of-Fame-Information|title=NABJ Hall of Fame - Information - News Media - Mass Media|website=Scribd}}
- spyhttp://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg%20Subject%20Index%20Files/B%20Disk/Blacks%20Miscellaneous/126.pdf
- womensmag: (5 pages inside the book Women’s Magazines in Print and New Media edited by Noliwe Rooks, Victoria Pass, Ayana Weekley)https://books.google.com/books?id=m8JCDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT82&lpg=PT82&dq=%22Ernest+Dunbar%22+%22Look+Magazine%22&source=bl&ots=5ytveXyK8D&sig=MDAkVIV3lvr5ijbq2CGU3TRW-qg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjgrdzUifbWAhXH64MKHX1sDSoQ6AEIYTAP#v=onepage&q=%22Ernest%20Dunbar%22%20%22Look%20Magazine%22&f=false
- sixties: The 1960s By Timothy P. Maga (pages 225-226){{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y3W4-HnvkfsC&pg=PA226&lpg=PA226&dq=%22Ernest+Dunbar%22+%22Look+Magazine%22&source=bl&ots=kFz1fz0MQS&sig=qaP0ua9m6P1vrjPArgM_0PSanYU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjgrdzUifbWAhXH64MKHX1sDSoQ6AEIXjAO#v=onepage&q=%22Ernest+Dunbar%22+%22Look+Magazine%22&f=false|title=The 1960s|first=Timothy P.|last=Maga|date=14 May 2014|publisher=Infobase Publishing|via=Google Books}}
- boston (on Africa and Boston Conference): Pages 125-126 about Boston Conference in the book: Postwar Anti-Racism: The United States, UNESCO, and "Race," 1945-1968 By Anthony Q. Hazard{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uQvIAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA126&lpg=PA126&dq=%22Ernest+Dunbar%22+%22Look+Magazine%22&source=bl&ots=9ZuRH-YnK7&sig=vM2KgldwE4AfHxEpld1_Gpy3QrA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjgrdzUifbWAhXH64MKHX1sDSoQ6AEIWzAN#v=onepage&q=%22Ernest+Dunbar%22+%22Look+Magazine%22&f=false|title=Postwar Anti-Racism: The United States, UNESCO, and "Race," 1945-1968|first=Anthony Q.|last=Hazard|date=31 October 2012|publisher=Springer|via=Google Books}}
- wnyc (Also NYPR Archive Collections under external links){{cite web|url=http://www.wnyc.org/story/ernest-dunbar/|title=Ernest Dunbar|publisher=}}
- kirkus{{cite web|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/ernest-dunbar/nigeria/|title=NIGERIA by Ernest Dunbar - Kirkus Reviews|publisher=}}
- scholarworks (His "Sex in School" article on p. 125):https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/2022/2544/3(5,6)+124-127.pdf;jsessionid=6FAD862546278DE374F72A435159D9DE?sequence=1
- exxon (on PR for Exxon)
- cornell ("Nytimes looks at Afro Center"){{cite web|url=http://cdsun.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/cornell?a=d&d=CDS19690407.2.6&e=--------20--1-----all----|title=The Cornell Daily Sun 7 April 1969 — The Cornell Daily Sun|website=cdsun.library.cornell.edu}}
- more (about his work with (More) magazine, another first):{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PisxDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT135&lpg=PT135&dq=ernest+dunbar+journalist&source=bl&ots=vzDD1lOjDF&sig=pDK2EMoMJjkJzl2QMQiYGo2zw-M&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjlgp7jzr7WAhXDy1QKHUsrAeIQ6AEIXTAN#v=onepage&q=ernest+dunbar+journalist&f=false|title=Other Voices: The New Journalism in America|first=Everette|last=Dennis|date=5 July 2017|publisher=Routledge|via=Google Books}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.nabj.org/ National Association of Black Journalists]
- [http://www.wnyc.org/story/ernest-dunbar/ NYPR Archive Collections]
- [http://okra.stanford.edu/en/list?q=name%3A(Dunbar%2C+Ernest+%5BLook+Magazine%5D)&p=1&ps= Stanford University, The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute]
- [http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/074_look.html Library of Congress, Look Magazine Photograph Collection]
- [http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no2010-100774/ World Cat identities of Ernest Dunbar (1927-2011)]
- [http://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-journalist-ernest-dunbar-in-africa-111672100.html Alamy]
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